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Hezbollah has an estimated 150,000 missiles and rockets, including some that could reach deep into Israel
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Does Israel really want to open a two-front war by attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon?

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Journalists who have paid with their lives
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1668 journalists killed in past 20 years (2003-2022), says RSF

More than half of Afghanistan's population rely on humanitarian aid
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Helen Clark condemns Taliban ban on female foreign aid workers

Afghanistan

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

Afghans await evacuation in kabul
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The world must not wash its hands of Afghanistan’s misery

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Photographer Massoud Hossain filming in Balkh province, Afghanistan
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Kabul one year on – cat-and-mouse with the Taliban intelligence agents

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Former NZ Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins
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Bellis apology doesn’t mean MIQ was unjustified, says Hipkins

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Imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
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The Taliban quote as portrayed on Fox News
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Afghan women challenge pregnant NZ journalist’s ‘reality under the Taliban’

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February 4, 2022
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Media coverage of pregnant NZ journalist Charlotte Bellis' plight
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Pregnant NZ journalist Charlotte Bellis offered a place in MIQ

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Muzhgan Samarqandi and her husband Daniel Kleinsman
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New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis
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Al Jazeera's Charlotte Bellis
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The Taliban media briefing
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New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis
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9/11 from Suva
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September 11, 2021
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Women journalists now scarce in Kabul
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Next chapter in Afghanistan
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Afghan media microphones
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New (unofficial) oppressive rules imposed on journalists in Afghanistan

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Fiji lawyer Ana Tuiketei Bolabiu
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Pacific lawyer tells of call to respect humanitarian law in Afghanistan

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August 28, 2021
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August 27, 2021
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Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

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"The face of courage vs the face of evil"

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May 29, 2026
"The end of the US Empire, led by an impetuous and clueless President Donald Trump, is irreversible."

Chris Hedges: Gaza and Iran – the rise of the Global...

May 29, 2026
Al Jazeera English’s Open Source Unit reports on the land Illegally in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria taken over by the Israeli military

How the Israeli military is illegally grabbing land ‘everywhere’

May 29, 2026
Joseph Vaa, 27, admitted gunning down suspected "Coconut Cartel" ringleader Lorenzo Lemalu Tovia outside a restaurant last week. Vaa's associate, Steve Tofa, 23, has confessed to being his accomplice in the shooting

Samoan nationals could face death penalty over ‘Coconut Cartel’ killing in...

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