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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 mining order

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May 6, 2025
Greenpeace International activists display a banner in front of the Maersk Launcher
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Trump signs ‘deeply dangerous’ order to fast-track deep sea mining

Pacific flags . . . advancing advance discussions on the the Blue Pacific
Cook Islands

Pacific Islands Forum leaders advance discussions on regional reforms

Cook Islands Christian Movement interim secretary William Framhein believes that the country should be declared a "Christian nation"
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Churches push for Cook Islands to be declared a Christian nation after mosque discovery

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

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
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Cook Islands government to seek update on China’s naval exercises

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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
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Cook Islands needs to ‘stand on our own two feet,’ says...

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Cook islanders protest in the streets of Avarua today
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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
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‘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
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‘Clandestine’ Cook Islands-China deal ‘damaged’ NZ relationship, says Clark

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February 16, 2025
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Chinese Premier Li Qiang meets with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) in Harbin
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China deal ‘complements, not replaces’ NZ relationship, says Cook Islands PM

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February 15, 2025
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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (centre) during his trip to China
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China confirms ‘in-depth exchange’ with Cook Islands as New Zealand faces...

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February 14, 2025
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Opposition Cook Islands United Party leader Teariki Heather
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Cook Islands opposition files no-confidence motion against PM

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February 13, 2025
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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown with China's Ambassador to the Pacific Qian Bo
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China: Cook Islands’ relationship with Beijing ‘should not be restrained’

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February 11, 2025
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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
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Cook Islands crisis: Haka with the taniwha or dance with the...

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TVNZ's 1News and Kiribati
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Mediawatch: NZ media in the middle of Asia-Pacific diplomatic drama

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NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (left) and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
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Mark Brown on China deal: ‘No need for NZ to sit...

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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
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December 13, 2024
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Fuimaono Dr Dylan Asafo
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Cook Islands seeks ‘decolonisation’ of international law at ICJ

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December 9, 2024
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"USP leadership in crisis" banner at an earlier staff protest against the regional Pacific university's management
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Alumni group slams USP’s failure to release council meeting outcomes

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December 7, 2024
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Post-mortems on the US presidential election
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Pacific nation leaders look forward to strengthened US relations with Trump

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November 7, 2024
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Te Ipukarea Society's Kelvin Passfield
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US elections: Cook Islands group warns of climate crisis pushback if...

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Cook Islands PM Mark Brown
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Cook Islands PM calls for easing of tensions in New Caledonia

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November 2, 2024
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The Pacific Islands Forum's "Troika-Plus" leaders (right) hold a talanoa session with New Caledonia President Louis Mapou
Cook Islands

Forum troika’s visit highlights value of regionalism for New Caledonia

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October 31, 2024
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Pacific Islands Forum "troika-plus" leaders have visited Kanaky New Caledonia on a fact-finding mission
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Pacific leaders’ mission to Nouméa – Mapou says New Caledonia at...

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October 30, 2024
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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, who is currently in Apia for the 27th Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), was bestowed with a Samoan matai title
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‘We’ll be talking about the future of negotiations’, says Rabuka on...

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October 24, 2024
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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
Coronavirus

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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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
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Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

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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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Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

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Fiji to set up relocation trust fund for villages hit by...

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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
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Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.
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Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
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