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RIMPAC 2026
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RIMPAC 2026: Part 1 – World’s biggest naval games a dress rehearsal for the coming ‘war on China’ 

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Hiroshima 80 years on – why AUKUS is imperial madness and needs to be stopped

The tsunami waves, caused by a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia, have now rolled on southeastward toward South America
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Pacific avoids major damage after powerful quake off Russia

The Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World . . . a call at the UN for global awareness, not only about atomic bomb victims, but also of the Fukushima wastewater release
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US Vice-President Kamala Harris and former US President Donald Trump
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How the US election may affect Pacific Island nations

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Honouring Hisoshima Day and the International Day for the World's Indigenous Peoples this month
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Brown’s ‘backflip’ over Japanese nuclear wastewater dump poses challenge for Forum

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August 16, 2024
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A display of Nagasaki photographs past and present
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Advocate slams NZ snub of Nagasaki peace tribute as ‘outrageous’

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August 9, 2024
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New Zealand is about to sacrifice what it cannot afford to lose for something it doesn’t need
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Eugene Doyle: It’s bigger than NATO and it’s heading our way

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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
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PIF hopes to send delegation to New Caledonia, says Forum chair

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NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters
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NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon
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NZ’s Luxon briefly stopping over to see Marape in Port Moresby

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French Polynesia has just played host to a 15-nation 'Marara' military exercise
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French Polynesia hosts ‘Marara’ military exercise for Asia-Pacific

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French Pacific Regiment marine
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Macron defends Indo-Pacific stance – now ‘consolidated’ in Oceania

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French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu
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France to host Pacific defence ministers in New Caledonia ‘hub’ meeting

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Rabuka’s nuclear wastewater discharge stance splits Fiji coalition opinion

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Protesters against the Fukushima wastewater dump in Aiuckland yesterday
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August 26, 2023
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A Japanese critic of the Fukushima wastewater discharge
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‘This is a big step’ – Japan releases nuclear wastewater into...

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August 24, 2023
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A Pacific protester against the Fukushima nuclear wastewater discharge plan
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Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated...

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August 23, 2023
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A Japanese Greenpeace protest against the planned Fukushima treated nuclear wastewater discharge
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NZ women’s peace group protests over imminent Fukushima nuclear wastewater release

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August 22, 2023
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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
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Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant
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Japan to release treated Fukushima nuclear wastewater in weeks

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August 8, 2023
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Fukushima Daichi nuclear power station
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Anti-nuclear group condemns Fiji PM Rabuka’s Fukushima wastewater stance

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Oppenheimer . . . a wait-and-see approach from the Japanese film industry
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Yes, Oppenheimer isn’t opening in Japan this week – but the...

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Pacific verdict on COP29
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A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent
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Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate
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NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

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“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”
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Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
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Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

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Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
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"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"
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West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.
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