Main stories in today's 1700 ABC News

AAP General News (Australia)
04-21-2006
Main stories in today's 1700 ABC News

SYDNEY, April 21 AAP - Main stories in today's 1700 ABC News:

- The Solomon Islands police commissioner says it will take many years for the country
to recover from the violence there this week.

- The new Solomon Island's Prime Minister Snyder Rini comes out of hiding and holds
a news conference at the prime minister's office in Honiara.

- Prime Minister John Howard says he doesn't expect the tensions between Australia
and Indonesia to be over after today's visit to Jakarta by the head of the department
of foreign affairs.

- For the second time in just over two months, AWB is looking for a new head.

- An appeals court in Vietnam upholds the death sentence for an Australian man of Vietnamese
origin for trafficking heroin.

- Eels prop Fuifui Moimoi is set to play his first game of the season tonight in the
match against the Wests Tigers at Parramatta Stadium.

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