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The first-ever US military flight carrying 18 Marshall Islanders deported from the United States by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrives at Majuro

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ICE deportation action lands Marshallese, Micronesians in Guantánamo ‘terror’ base

July 19, 2025

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‘Business as usual’ vows Parkop after storming of PNG Parliament, rioting

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Paul Buchanan: Soul-searching NZ must ‘own’ this terrorist attack

Today's front page of the PNG National newspaper covering the Engan tribal fighting 220823

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PNG’s Marape condemns ‘jungle justice’ after 6 gunmen shot dead

Gaza press flak jackets

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CPJ ranks Israel second-to-top on unpunished journalist murders index in Gaza ‘relentless war’

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Indonesia’s Jokowi still owes resolution of past rights abuses

December 10, 2016

One of the kidnapped Papua New Guinean schoolgirls talks about her ordeal

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PNG gunmen ‘kidnapped, raped’ 17 schoolgirls before freeing them

June 12, 2023

Mosque attack court appearance

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Court appearance: Mosque attack survivors’ and families’ painful day

June 14, 2019

Lord Fakafanua

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Tongan talk of the death penalty for worst drug offenders

August 16, 2021

Women at the weekend Noumea GBV protest

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Noumea protesters demand action on domestic violence after woman is killed

August 8, 2022

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Bryan Kramer: PNG ‘merciless’ payback killings have changed everything

July 15, 2019

Front page report in the Post-Courier 120122

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PNG Post-Courier: ‘Laughing stock’ sorcery issue way out of control

Pacific Media Watch -

January 13, 2022

Former Fiji prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama walks out of the Suva High Court escorted by police officers to the be taken to jail today.

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Former Fiji PM Voreqe Bainimarama jailed over block of USP probe

May 9, 2024

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Cartoons: Malcolm Evans – shoes

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March 16, 2019

A Post-Courier artist's impression of the Chimbu attack

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PNG villagers attack priest, nurses and doctors while on Chimbu foot...

July 22, 2024

PNG Internal Security Minister Peter Tsiamalili Jr on the police staffing crisis

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‘Sleepless nights’ admits PNG’s security minister over stretched police

March 19, 2023

"No circumspection. No leadership."

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No apologies over fabricated terror plot from pollies or lobby groups

March 15, 2025

Chief Superintendent Clement Dala . . . PNG's courts and prisons are "completely overrun"

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Papua New Guinea police blame overrun system for prison breakouts

June 26, 2025

Fijian Deputy Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica

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Kamikamica resigns amid Fiji corruption charges

October 22, 2025

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Indonesia executes four convicted drug traffickers on penal island

July 29, 2016

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Courthouse torched, police assaulted during Rapa Nui unrest

January 31, 2019

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Bishops slam ‘cycle of hate’ they say is destroying moral fabric...

January 29, 2019

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Duterte warns more of his appointees will be sacked over corruption

March 4, 2017

Filipino President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr

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Not over: Young generations wage fight to protect Martial Law memories

September 21, 2022

PNG deputy opposition leader Douglas Tomuriesa

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Plea to PNG prime minister to tell truth about ransom paid...

March 9, 2023

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu portrayed on a placard at a New Zealand pro-Palestine rally

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Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet...

November 16, 2025

Highlands women attend a funeral for a victim of a sorcery accusation-related attack

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Pivotal role of PNG’s village courts in curbing sorcery violence

March 21, 2024

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CLIMATE AND COVID

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

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

BEARING WITNESS

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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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

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

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

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

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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

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After two years of denial, Israel has officially admitted firing on the 5-year-old Hind Rajab’s car

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NSW Premier Chris Minns

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Palestinian-American home owner Loui Ridi at Ben Gurion Airport . . . "I appreciate Mike Huckabee condemned it, called them terrorists. But I’ve been in contact with the embassy, that nothing has been done on the ground."

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Bondi Commissioner Virginia Bell

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Australia, don’t be surprised. Israel does this to Palestinians all the...

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Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

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Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

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Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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NSW Premier Chris Minns

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An armed Jewish police force in Australia? Minns defies police and...

Palestinian-American home owner Loui Ridi at Ben Gurion Airport . . . "I appreciate Mike Huckabee condemned it, called them terrorists. But I’ve been in contact with the embassy, that nothing has been done on the ground."

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Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged...

Bondi Commissioner Virginia Bell

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Bondi Royal Commission: A ‘slippery slope to eroding our freedoms’

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir . . . visiting the construction site of a gallows being built to hang Palestinians

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‘Bloodthirsty psychopath’ – Israel’s Ben-Gvir touts viewing booths at gallows for...