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The Cook Islands Maritime Authority says the Bertha is deceptively continuing to use Cook Islands Identifiers
Cook Islands

Sanctioned oil tanker falsely using Cook Islands flag, authority says

APR editor -
January 8, 2026
Cook Island activists peacefully confront the Nautilus at Rarotonga port last month, holding banners proclaiming "Don’t Mine The Moana"
Cook Islands

Growing local opposition to seabed mining decision has forced Cook Islands delay, says Greenpeace

Cook Islands activists confront the EV Nautilus on its return to Rarotonga
Cook Islands

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

Cook Island activists peacefully confront the Nautilus
Cook Islands

Pacific protesters against deep sea mining challenge US exploration ship

Prime Minister Mark Brown says the New Zealand-Cook Islands relationship is too strong
Cook Islands

Mark Brown rejects talk of ‘strategic shift’ in Cook Islands-New Zealand relationship

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters with Minister for Pacific Peoples Shane Reti celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Cook Islands constitution in Tāmaki Makaurau
Cook Islands

‘Right to choose’ key to Cook Islands-NZ relationship, says Peters

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August 4, 2025
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The streets of Avarua came alive with colour and culture to kick off the Te Maeva Nui 2025 celebrations
Cook Islands

‘People have stopped using it’: Culture secretary warns of complacency over...

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August 4, 2025
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Porirua Cemetery manager Daniel Chrisp speaks at the Family Forum beside the chapel, as Mayor Anita Baker and whānau gather to honour 1800 patients buried in unmarked graves
Cook Islands

Pacific leaders demand respectful involvement in memorial for unmarked graves

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July 21, 2025
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The Cook Islands' outer islands, or Pa Enua, are emptying as people make the pilgrimage to Rarotonga for constitution celebrations
Cook Islands

Cook Islanders flock from outer islands for 60th anniversary celebrations

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July 21, 2025
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Cook Islands will mark 60 years of self-governance in free association with New Zealand on August 4
Cook Islands

Luxon and Peters to miss Cook Islands’ 60th Constitution Day celebrations

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July 15, 2025
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Under the Cook Islands constitution, New Zealand cannot pass laws for the Cook Islands
Cook Islands

Nearly half of Kiwis oppose automatic citizenship for Cook Islands, says...

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June 25, 2025
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A Cook Islands resident, Jackie Tuara,
Cook Islands

Former New Zealand PM Helen Clark blames Cook Islands for crisis

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June 21, 2025
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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
Cook Islands

Mark Brown: Cook Islands ‘not consulted’ on NZ-China agreements

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June 20, 2025
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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) and NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters
Cook Islands

Why New Zealand has paused funding to the Cook Islands over...

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June 19, 2025
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Mele Ikiua with four of her five children: Eunique Ikiua (from left), Kaira-Jo Talagi-Ikiua, Topui Jnr Talagi-Ikiua, Mele, and Hannah Edwards-Ikiua
Cook Islands

Pasifika recipients say King’s Birthday honours not just theirs alone

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June 2, 2025
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The Cook Islands has declared an outbreak of the viral infection dengue fever
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Pacific dengue cases surge but don’t cancel your holiday yet, says...

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May 25, 2025
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Former Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna
Cook Islands

Environmentalists question Henry Puna’s role in deep sea mining firm

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May 19, 2025
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Hundreds of people peacefully rallied at sea to protect the ocean from seabed activities in August 2024
Cook Islands

Cook Islands environment group calls on govt to condemn Trump’s seabed...

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May 6, 2025
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Greenpeace International activists display a banner in front of the Maersk Launcher
Cook Islands

Trump signs ‘deeply dangerous’ order to fast-track deep sea mining

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April 25, 2025
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Pacific flags . . . advancing advance discussions on the the Blue Pacific
Cook Islands

Pacific Islands Forum leaders advance discussions on regional reforms

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March 28, 2025
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Cook Islands Christian Movement interim secretary William Framhein believes that the country should be declared a "Christian nation"
Cook Islands

Churches push for Cook Islands to be declared a Christian nation...

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March 6, 2025
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The historic signing of the nuclear-free pact, also known as the Treaty of Rarotonga, took place in Majuro during the observance of the Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day on 3 March 2025
Cook Islands

Marshall Islands signs treaty banning nuclear weapons in the South Pacific

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March 5, 2025
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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
Cook Islands

Cook Islands government to seek update on China’s naval exercises

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February 28, 2025
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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
Cook Islands

Cook Islands needs to ‘stand on our own two feet,’ says...

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February 27, 2025
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Cook islanders protest in the streets of Avarua today
Cook Islands

Cook Islanders march in Avarua against Mark Brown government

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February 18, 2025
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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown speaking at a media conference in Avarua after returning from China
Cook Islands

‘No areas of concern’, says Cook Islands PM on NZ’s China...

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February 17, 2025
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Former NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark, Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
Cook Islands

‘Clandestine’ Cook Islands-China deal ‘damaged’ NZ relationship, says Clark

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February 16, 2025
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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
Cook Islands

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
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
Coronavirus

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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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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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

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

USP and AUT journalism collaboration
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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
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Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
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