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The organisers of the Chilean civil society initiative against genocidal Israel
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Chile plans to launch global campaign seeking to expel ‘pariah’ Israel from United Nations

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A tribute in Māngere East's Village Green
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Showing their aroha for the activist ‘power couple’ of Māngere East

New Zealand's "Voice of Oceania" Dame Jacinda Ardern at the COP3 climate summit in Brazil
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"The silence of governments like ours imagines this dystopia as a new baseline"
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Marilyn Garson: How shall we speak now since the Gaza ‘ceasefire’?

Palestinian rally MC Lamees Elthiny speaks to a protest rally in Auckland today themed on the "BDS - Boycott Divestments Sanctions" campaign against New Zealand companies alleged to be complicit with Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Saige England: if we want to save the planet we need...

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Palestinians mourn their relatives who were killed by the Israeli military in air strikes in spite of the Gaza ceasefire on 19 October 2025
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Concern over the Pacific Ocean being hyper-militarised
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Dame Jacinda Ardern, Special Envoy for Oceania and former prime minister of Aotearoa New Zealand (right) and Coral Pasisi, Director of Climate Change and Sustainability at the Pacific Community (SPC)
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The traditional NZ Census will be replaced with a combination of government data and smaller annual surveys
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No more kings?
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Eugene Doyle: Venezuela and Trump’s war to save the Ancien Régime

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Street art depicting a girl holding a paper boat, with half of her dress showing buildings
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Parihaka the focus for global IPRA peace conference in Aotearoa

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"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’

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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

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Freedom Flotilla hunger strikers Huwaida Arraf (from left -- Palestinian/American), Omer Sharir (Israeli) and Zohar Chamberlain Regev (Israeli/German)
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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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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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Columnist Matthew Hooton's article justifying Foreign Minister Winston Peters' stance on Palestine
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Flotilla trio Rana Hamida (from left), Youssef Sammour and Samuel Leason
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Defiant pariah state leader Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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Indonesian authorities say the group were transferred due to "security concerns"
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A photo of the Philippine media assembled by and flown to Israel
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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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August 25, 2025
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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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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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