Massacre kills several in PNG

ELEVEN people have been killed in two days of brutal fighting between tribes in the Kompiam area of Enga Province in Papua New Guinea.

Two men were killed in attacks on Monday and nine more were killed in retaliatory attacks early on Tuesday.

During the retaliation, tribesmen kidnapped 11 children.

Police and soldiers later rescued the children from their captors.

Police say the cause of the violence is still unknown.

The provincial Police Commander, George Kakas, has appealed to social media users not to speculate and spread unconfirmed rumours.

“We have social media commentators who are drawing conclusions and naming tribes who are not involved. That makes our job difficult because we have to deal with the misinformation,” he said.

The first two men killed were buried on the same day.

Police retrieved the bodies of the other nine and took them to the hospital morgue.

CANBERRA, Australia — A senior Australian government minister said on Wednesday that rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, could be refused a visa due to antisemitic comments if he attempts to visit Australia.

Education Minister Jason Clare was responding to media reports that the US celebrity intends to visit the family of new Australian partner Bianca Censori in Melbourne next week.

Mr Clare said he did not know if Ye had applied for a visa but that Australia has previously refused them to people with antisemitic views.

“I expect that if he does apply, he would have to go through the same process and answer the same questions” as others who’ve aired such views, Mr Clare told Nine Network television.

Last month, Ye praised Hitler in an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Twitter later suspended Ye after he tweeted a picture of a swastika merged with the Star of

David.

Australia’s Migration Act sets security and character requirements for non-citizens to enter the country. Any decision on whether Ye gets an Australian visa would be made by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles, whose office said he could not comment on individual cases due to privacy reasons.

Peter Wertheim, co-chief executive officer of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, met government officials on Tuesday to argue for an entry ban.

“We had a sympathetic hearing,” Mr Wertheim said on Sky News. “We’ve made the case that this particular individual does not meet the character test and that it would be in the national interest not to grant him a visa and we set out our reasons in some detail.”

Opposition leader Peter Dutton said if he were in government, he would be inclined to bar Ye on character grounds.