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Eugene Doyle: Venezuela and Trump’s war to save the Ancien Régime

APR editor -
November 4, 2025
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Parihaka the focus for global IPRA peace conference in Aotearoa

"My greatest worry is that [Netanyahu] does believe that his only chance of being reelected is still to have a war going on"
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Israeli historian Ilan Pappé: Despite ceasefire, Palestinians still face ‘elimination, genocide’

Palestinians, forcibly displaced to the southern part of Gaza by Israel, make their way north
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The fake Gaza ‘peace agreement’ versus real peace with justice

Freedom Flotilla hunger strikers Huwaida Arraf (from left -- Palestinian/American), Omer Sharir (Israeli) and Zohar Chamberlain Regev (Israeli/German)
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Sara Awad: Why Gaza still looks to the freedom flotillas for true peace

A deradicalisation that would make it preposterous for Shabana Mahmood, Britain’s Home Secretary, to call demonstrations against a two-year genocide “fundamentally un-British”
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Genocide two years on: It is the West, not Gaza, that...

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Back in Aotearoa at Auckland International Airport today after the Israeli military abducted Global Sumud Flotilla participants on international waters heading for Gaza last month
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‘Treated like animals’ – NZer activists detained by Israeli forces arrive...

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Columnist Matthew Hooton's article justifying Foreign Minister Winston Peters' stance on Palestine
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Misleading ‘justification’ column on Peters and Palestine panned

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October 10, 2025
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Flotilla trio Rana Hamida (from left), Youssef Sammour and Samuel Leason
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NZ flotilla members arrive in Jordan, state news agency says

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October 8, 2025
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Defiant pariah state leader Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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John Hobbs: Why New Zealand’s repugnant stance over Palestine damages our...

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October 7, 2025
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Indonesian authorities say the group were transferred due to "security concerns"
Civil Society

Prisoner transfer sparks new human rights concerns in West Papua

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September 4, 2025
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A photo of the Philippine media assembled by and flown to Israel
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Walden Bello on Gaza and the media silence: ‘It isn’t fear...

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Dr Anthony Bellanger, the French general-secretary of the Brussels-based International FeDeration of Journalists, talks to Al Jazeera in an interview today on the death toll of Gazan journalists
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250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli...

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September 1, 2025
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Massacre of Gaza journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest today

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September 1, 2025
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Palestinian activist Nadine Mortaja announces the planned "March for Humanity"
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Police plan for march which will shut Auckland Harbour Bridge this...

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September 1, 2025
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Indonesian security forces fire tear gas to quell protests at Manokwari
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West Papuan civil society groups protest over brutal security forces crackdown...

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September 1, 2025
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A Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) rally held during the 2025 Samoan general election campaign
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Gearing up for the 2025 Samoan general election – three-way split?

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August 25, 2025
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New Zealand protesters carry symbolic "bodies" of Palestinian journalists slaughtered by the Israeli military
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Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?

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August 24, 2025
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Nuclear refugees from Rongelap in the Marshall Islands being evacuated on board the Rainbow Warrior to Mejatto island in May 1985
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Nuclear-free Pacific advocates speak out in NZ human rights radio show

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August 21, 2025
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Placards declare "Zionism a threat to humanity" and "Let Gaza live"
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Pro-Palestinian protests across NZ call on government to sanction Israel

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August 18, 2025
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Meanwhile, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (right) and Foreign Minister Winston Peters (left)
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Gordon Campbell: The lack of spine in New Zealand’s foreign policy...

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August 16, 2025
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Journalists and activists Jeremy Rose and David Robie in conversation at the Aro Valley Peace Talks
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Nagasaki Day and Aro Valley Peace Talks recall nuke-free heyday

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August 13, 2025
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A protest calls for sanctions against Israel
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PSNA calls on Luxon to end ‘support’ for Israel as Australia...

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August 11, 2025
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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...

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August 3, 2025
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Part of the pro-Palestinian protest march on Sydney Harbour Bridge today, calling for an end to the genocide and starvation by Israel
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange joins Sydney Gaza humanitarian protest as thousands...

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August 3, 2025
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New Caledonia Census Chef de Mission Jean Philippe Grouthier (right) at the French national statistical institute INSEE
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New Caledonia’s population drops to below 265,000, census reveals

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July 30, 2025
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Fiji's NGO Coalition on Human Rights chair Shamima Ali
Civil Society

Fiji ‘failing’ the Gaza genocide and humanity test, says rights group

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July 29, 2025
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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
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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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CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent
Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
Coronavirus

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
Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

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BEARING WITNESS

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
Civil Society

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

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
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Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016
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Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

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

USP and AUT journalism collaboration
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Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

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

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
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Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

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No more kings?

Eugene Doyle: Venezuela and Trump’s war to save the Ancien Régime

November 4, 2025
Cook Islands activists confront the EV Nautilus on its return to Rarotonga

Not enough known about seafloor to begin mining, says Cook Is...

November 3, 2025
The court ordered the Israeli government to present a clear position on its blockade

RSF expresses ‘regret’ over new Israeli Supreme Court delay on Gaza...

November 3, 2025
An UNRWA school in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombing

Rebuilding Gaza begins in the classroom and with dignity

November 2, 2025
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