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Hezbollah has an estimated 150,000 missiles and rockets, including some that could reach deep into Israel

Afghanistan

Does Israel really want to open a two-front war by attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon?

June 21, 2024

Journalists who have paid with their lives

Afghanistan

1668 journalists killed in past 20 years (2003-2022), says RSF

More than half of Afghanistan's population rely on humanitarian aid

Afghanistan

Helen Clark condemns Taliban ban on female foreign aid workers

Afghanistan

Women-led protests in Iran gather momentum – but will they be enough to bring about change?

Female life under the Taliban

Afghanistan

How the Taliban’s return has robbed Afghanistan’s women and girls of their future

Afghans await evacuation in kabul

Afghanistan

The world must not wash its hands of Afghanistan’s misery

August 28, 2022

Photographer Massoud Hossain filming in Balkh province, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Kabul one year on – cat-and-mouse with the Taliban intelligence agents

August 7, 2022

Former NZ Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins

Afghanistan

Bellis apology doesn’t mean MIQ was unjustified, says Hipkins

June 22, 2022

Imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Afghanistan

Step up efforts to free Assange after 3 years in jail,...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 11, 2022

The Taliban quote as portrayed on Fox News

Afghanistan

Afghan women challenge pregnant NZ journalist’s ‘reality under the Taliban’

February 4, 2022

Media coverage of pregnant NZ journalist Charlotte Bellis' plight

Afghanistan

Pregnant NZ journalist Charlotte Bellis offered a place in MIQ

February 2, 2022

Muzhgan Samarqandi and her husband Daniel Kleinsman

Afghanistan

Muzhgan Samarqandi: MIQ debate trivialises the plight of women and girls...

February 1, 2022

New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis

Afghanistan

Covid-19: NZ’s MIQ working but has tough trade-offs, says epidemiologist

January 30, 2022

Al Jazeera's Charlotte Bellis

Afghanistan

Charlotte Bellis on Afghanistan: ‘It’s just life and death on so...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 31, 2021

The Taliban media briefing

Afghanistan

Taliban ‘journalism rules’ open way to censorship, persecution, warns RSF

Pacific Media Watch -

September 24, 2021

New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis

Afghanistan

Afghanistan media: ‘You can’t put that genie back in the bottle’

Pacific Media Watch -

September 16, 2021

9/11 from Suva

Afghanistan

Two decades on from 9/11 and a Pacific newsroom sense of...

Pacific Media Watch -

September 11, 2021

Activists protest against World Bank policies

Afghanistan

9/11 killed it, but 20 years on global justice movement is...

September 11, 2021

US military juggernaut

Afghanistan

‘Fortress USA’: How 9/11 produced a military industrial juggernaut

September 11, 2021

Women journalists now scarce in Kabul

Afghanistan

Fewer than 100 of Kabul’s 700 women journalists still working, says...

September 8, 2021

Next chapter in Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Indonesia holds fire on Afghanistan relations – awaits Taliban government

September 2, 2021

Charlotte Bellis at Kabul International Airport

Afghanistan

‘I’ll stay in Afghanistan as long as I can,’ says reporter...

Pacific Media Watch -

September 1, 2021

US trainers in Afghanistan

Afghanistan

West spins ‘humanitarian’ tale over Afghanistan, China talks up war...

August 29, 2021

Afghan media microphones

Afghanistan

New (unofficial) oppressive rules imposed on journalists in Afghanistan

Pacific Media Watch -

August 29, 2021

Fiji lawyer Ana Tuiketei Bolabiu

Afghanistan

Pacific lawyer tells of call to respect humanitarian law in Afghanistan

August 28, 2021

Kabul Airport suicide bombing wounded

Afghanistan

Who speaks for Afghans? Climate realities with the Taliban takeover

August 28, 2021

Kabul airport bomb blasts

Afghanistan

Kabul attack: Ardern says no NZDF personnel, evacuees at airport blasts

August 27, 2021

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

BEARING WITNESS

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

Bearing Witness

Return to Rabi on the horizon for Ossies climate doco crew?

Bearing Witness

Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

Bearing Witness

Banabans climate change student documentary chosen for third festival

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

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NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters

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NZ ‘running out of patience’ – Peters lashes Israel over Gaza...

The NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji

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Fiji rights coalition slams ‘betrayal’ of West Papua for Indonesian benefits

A training session for the UN Pacific peacekeepers cohort

Australia

Australia launches ‘landmark’ UN police peacekeeping course for Pacific region

If the West so wished, it could be putting more economic pressure on Israel

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: NZ’s silence over Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing

EDITOR'S PICKS

The 1 May 2025 report by Talamua Online that led to the criminal libel case

Civil Society

Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism

It has been 40 years since the Rongelap people had to leave their homes due to nuclear fallout in May 1985

Civil Society

40 years on – reflecting on Rainbow Warrior’s legacy, fight against...

If the West so wished, it could be putting more economic pressure on Israel

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: NZ’s silence over Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing

The people of Gaza are desperate. No food has entered Gaza for more than 76 days

Analysis

Starvation of Gaza – a distressing continuation of a decades-old plan

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Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

"Israel is starving us" in Gaza, says the protest placard in Auckland

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‘Starving’ masked Palestine protesters condemn Luxon’s Gaza ‘appeasement’

Air New Zealand is resuming its Auckland-Nouméa service

Aviation

Air New Zealand to resume Auckland-Nouméa flights from November

Talamua Online editor Lagi Keresoma

Global

Legal academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law should go after charge

Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) Mobile Yonif 1 Marine Task Force for Indonesian-PNG Border Security soldiers

Asia Report

Indonesian military operations spark concerns over displaced indigenous Papuans