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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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Eugene Doyle: Trump celebrates Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

The lone building left standing from the US nuclear bomb attack on 3 August 1945 that later became the Hiroshima Peace Memorial
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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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Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support

US Marines run past the Camp Blaz
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US on target in Guam with first Marine redeployment and missile...

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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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November 4, 2024
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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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July 24, 2024
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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’s Winston Peters calls for ‘more diplomacy, engagement, compromise’ in New...

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NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon
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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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Retired academic Professor Vijay Naidu and Fonu Emberson-Bain -- wearing the Fiji Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG) tee-shirt
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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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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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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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July 20, 2023
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IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi met with New Zealand's Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta
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UN nuclear watchdog boss defends position on Japan’s wastewater dump

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

In the Eye of the Storm
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Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors
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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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NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

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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Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
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Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
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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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Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"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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