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Killed Fiji military detainee Jone Vakarisi
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Four months on, still no charges in death of man in Fiji military custody

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August 18, 2026
Government and corporate elites and states can continue to support Israel militarily and economically only as long as establishment media continue to rehearse the lies, falsifications, and denials of its genocide in Gaza
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Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza? It’s the media

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Public broadcaster Television New Zealand
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John Minto: When TVNZ’s Israeli ‘counter-terrorism’ op against Palestinians is actually a lie

The International Court of Justice in The Hague
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Eugene Doyle: Sex crimes, Karim Khan and the West’s war on the ICC

A Nile crocodile, the creature to be deployed in Israel's Ketziot Prison moat
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Media avoids Israel’s sadism like a crocodile-infested moat

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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The International Criminal Court in The Hague
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Suspect in his 50s is in custody and being questioned
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Fiji police arrest man over alleged social media threat to ‘burn...

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July 20, 2026
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Fiji's Labour Party leader and a former prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry
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‘Race was used as a weapon’ – Fiji coup frontman urged...

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July 16, 2026
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Three inmates, who scaled the fence at Baisu Prison, were shot dead
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Dilapidated infrastructure blamed for fatal PNG prison escape attempt

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July 14, 2026
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Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III 10 July 2025 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira
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Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

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July 10, 2026
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In Dunedin Ōtepoti yesterday . . . walking from St Kilda beach to St Clair beach, Palestine will be free
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John Minto: The shame of NZ’s betrayal of Gaza’s children

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A poster highlighting the New Zealand government's role in the Western complicity over the Gaza genocide
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Gaza genocide – how many UN findings will the West ignore?

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July 4, 2026
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This latest UN report is significant because it focuses specifically on children
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A UN report details the ‘overwhelming’ scale of children killed in...

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June 30, 2026
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The Fiji police and military have launched controversial joint security operations to take down criminal networks in the country
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Fijian widow alleges husband was beaten in police raid, told to...

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Press TV journalist Hadi Hoteit reporting in southern Lebanon
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The Gaza doctrine – Israeli ‘journacide’ and the muted NZ media...

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Gaza flotilla humanitarian activist Hāhona Ormsby
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Joseph Auga Matamata aka Viliamu Samu in court
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Hawke’s Bay enslaver and human trafficker Joseph Matamata granted parole

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June 20, 2026
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Israeli Ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman
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Gaza flotilla victim blaming – time to expel Israel’s ambassador

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June 19, 2026
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Gaza Sumud flotilla survivors: Juliet Lamont, Isla Lamont, Neve O'Connor
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A world first: Australia will now investigate Israel over Gaza flotilla...

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June 17, 2026
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Fiji human rights advocate Shamima Ali
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Calls to dismantle joint taskforce rejected by Fiji govt despite brutality...

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June 16, 2026
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The whistleblowing soldiers of 1967 admitted their job was not to “fight the enemy” – or “eradicate the terrorists”, as Israeli leaders now term it. It was to kill and terrorise Palestinian civilians
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Jonathan Cook: How Israel planned the Gaza genocide decades ago

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June 15, 2026
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Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built
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Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

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June 12, 2026
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Fiji police on duty
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FLNKS president Christian Téin
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Case dismissed for pro-independence Kanak leader Christian Téin

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June 6, 2026
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"The face of courage vs the face of evil"
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‘He’s Māori!’ Hāhona Ormsby – a New Zealander in the Israeli...

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May 29, 2026
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Pacific verdict on COP29
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COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

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

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