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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir . . . visiting the construction site of a gallows being built to hang Palestinians
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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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Jone Vakarisi . . . asked if he was planning a coup
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Fiji drug peddler Jone Vakarisi at a court appearance in March 2026
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The RFMF has assured the Fiji public that "there is no threat to public safety"
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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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Iranian spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani
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Al Jazeera's Nour Odeh
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Two of the three latest Lebanese journalists assassinated by Israel . . . Fatemeh Fatouni (left)
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Israeli colonialism . . . the Nakba
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This 18-month-old child’s father, Osama Abu Nassar, was detained near the al-Maghazi refugee camp
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A US protester holds placards reading ‘’war making is a crime’’
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Iranian Israeli political activist and editor Orly Noy
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South Africa's genocide in Gaza case against Israel at the ICJ
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Far-right Israelis and relatives of the soldiers gather in front of a military court building and stage a protest
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Shattered homes . . . community leaders at Port Moresby's Paga Hill settlement
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The PNG Correctional Service headquarters where the alleged assault took place
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Expanding the Israeli illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim
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Former Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte
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Port Moresby's Bomana Correctional Facility . . . nine inmates injured in an confrontation with jail guards. Image: RNZ/Johnny Blades
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Indonesian soldiers and equipment next to a civilian aircraft in West Papua. Image: ULMWP
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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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