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President Trump's so-called "Board of Peace"

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Gaza’s future stuck in diplomatic limbo as ‘Board of Peace’ blocks progress for self-determination

July 6, 2026

Protesters in New Zealand's largest city, Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau

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The West called it terrorism – Iran called it the architecture of survival

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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The reckoning – what the US-Iran MOU means in reality for Israel

The March for Peace in Auckland, New Zealand, on June 20

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The new Middle East: How the Old Order died and what is rising in its place

"The world has the right to defend itself from Israel"

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Why the Middle East needs a strong Iran-Turkey alliance to foil Israel

A Canadian boy tourist holds a Palestinian flag aloft signalling to "no war" protesters on Devonport wharf

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Iran war fallout – Trump is going to Beijing on bended...

May 10, 2026

Democracy Now host Amy Goodman interviewing economist Dr Laleh Khalili

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End of the petrodollar? How Iran war is reshaping the global...

March 22, 2026

Pictures of slain IRGC commanders and the Islamic Republic’s founder

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Why the Middle East fears a US-Israel attack on Iran

January 23, 2026

Palestinian academic Sameer Barghouthi

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With the Gaza genocide, the world changed – sovereignty died and...

January 5, 2026

Palestinians perform prayer next to the rubble of a mosque that was destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces during the Gaza genocide

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Trump’s ‘annexation ban’ is a ploy to push Israeli normalisation

October 30, 2025

Professor Mohamad Elmasry

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Western media ‘parrots Israeli propaganda’ over Gaza, says analyst

Pacific Media Watch -

November 16, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden at the White House

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Promoting peace and stability in the Middle East by unconditionally backing...

August 2, 2024

Hamas political bureau leader Ismail Haniyeh

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Hamas stands firm for permanent ceasefire in Gaza, full Israeli withdrawal

June 17, 2024

The Gaza truce takes effect after 7 weeks of war

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War on Gaza: Israeli failures, US charades and a negotiated truce

November 24, 2023

Kamahl Santamaria at Al Jazeera

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Former TVNZ Breakfast host Kamahl Santamaria breaks year-long silence in The...

Pacific Media Watch -

June 5, 2023

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

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Analysis

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"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

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

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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

POPULAR POSTS

Understand what is actually being contested here. This is not about tankers. It is about governance

Analysis

Lim Tean: The Hormuz bone – why Iran will not let...

In Dunedin Ōtepoti yesterday . . . walking from St Kilda beach to St Clair beach, Palestine will be free

Asia Report

John Minto: The shame of NZ’s betrayal of Gaza’s children

Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jnr

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Palau’s President warns of rising nuclear anxiety in the Pacific, after...

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya

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‘If we don’t save Dr Abu Safiya, he’ll die in prison’...

EDITOR'S PICKS

French-Ethiopian student Sarah Cotte

Analysis

Retrial for UK student charged with ‘terrorism’ over speech condemning genocide

Elected New Caledonia's Congress President (Speaker) Virginie Ruffenach

Culture

Pro-France Virginie Ruffenach elected New Caledonia Congress president

Regional Pacific media "locked out" of an Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese media conference in Honiara in 2025

Australia

Press freedom: holding the MEAA line on the public’s right to...

The Strait of Hormuz is not governed from Washington, or even from Tehran. It is governed from London

Analysis

The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...

MOST COMMENTS

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

French-Ethiopian student Sarah Cotte

Analysis

Retrial for UK student charged with ‘terrorism’ over speech condemning genocide

Ex-coup convict George Speight

Culture

Former coup leader re-enters Fiji political debate with challenge to immunity...

Elected New Caledonia's Congress President (Speaker) Virginie Ruffenach

Culture

Pro-France Virginie Ruffenach elected New Caledonia Congress president

Regional Pacific media "locked out" of an Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese media conference in Honiara in 2025

Australia

Press freedom: holding the MEAA line on the public’s right to...