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Indonesians demonstrate in front of the US Embassy in Jakarta to show solidarity with Palestinians on the second anniversary of the war on Gaza on 7 October 2025
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The Civicus "civic freedoms" in the Pacific report
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The UNSC resolution not only makes US President Donald Trump the effective leader of the new administrative force that will be imposed upon the Gaza Strip, but also greenlights what it calls its International Stabilisation Force
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A shameful mandate for force: What the UNSC’s Gaza resolution means in practice

New Zealand's "Voice of Oceania" Dame Jacinda Ardern at the COP3 climate summit in Brazil
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Jacinda Ardern: Why NZ’s tiny group of hysterical haters can’t face the facts

"The silence of governments like ours imagines this dystopia as a new baseline"
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Marilyn Garson: How shall we speak now since the Gaza ‘ceasefire’?

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Fiji political rivals Sitiveni Rabuka (left), a former prime minister, and Voreqe Bainimarama, the current Prime Minister
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Showdown between two former coup leaders in fight for Fiji’s democracy

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The Pacific Media Centre project
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2022 - Fiji's third election since the “coup to end all coups” in 2006
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As Fiji prepares to vote, democracy could already be the loser

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Papuan protesters warn Jakarta – ‘don’t criminalise’ Governor Enembe

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