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Pacific Islands Forum leaders in Koror – heavy on reaffirming but light on tasking

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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
Tahiti

Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 41 years on

The opening of the 2026 session of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (C-24) meeting
Tahiti

Renewed UN calls for decolonisation action on New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Guam and Tokelau

Breakaway A Fano Tia members, led by Tematai Le Gayic, appear dressed in white
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French Polynesia’s legislature shows new shape, more divisions

French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson (left) and his father-in-law Oscar Temaru, president of the ruling Party Tavini Huiraatira
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Mass Easter resignations within Tahiti’s pro-independence ruling party

Tavini’s historic leader Oscar Temaru (from left), French Polynesia’s current President Moetai Brotherson, and Tematai Le Gayic
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The Cree Indian motif – inspired by the mythology of the elderly woman "Eyes of Fire" and her vision for the future – painted on the original Rainbow Warrior smoke stack
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From nuclear to climate crisis survivors: unfinished business in the Pacific

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March 23, 2026
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French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson
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French Polynesia urges Pacific to unite amid rising global tensions

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"Tahiti is mentioned in various email exchanges involving Epstein"
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‘The girl from Tahiti’ – Pacific Islands in the Epstein files

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February 16, 2026
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French sailors hunker down in an inflatable
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French shrug off cocaine case costs with new smugglers ‘strategy’

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February 5, 2026
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The cocaine was being transported on a ship sailing under Togo's flag
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4.87 tonnes of cocaine seized in French Polynesian waters – bound...

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January 21, 2026
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New Zealand author David Robie
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David Robie’s Eyes of Fire rekindles the legacy of the Rainbow...

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December 1, 2025
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The Tahiti search operations involved about 200 emergency staff
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Tahiti landslide: no survivors – all 8 bodies retrieved

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November 28, 2025
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Decades after the nuclear tests, Pacific people still endure many consequences
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Pacific lawmakers call for creation of human rights commissions to fight...

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October 29, 2025
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Journalist and author Dr David Robie speaking to the Fabian Society
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France’s betrayal of Kanak hopes for independence, Rainbow Warrior, climate crisis...

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The tsunami waves, caused by a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia, have now rolled on southeastward toward South America
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Pacific avoids major damage after powerful quake off Russia

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July 31, 2025
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"Hot off the press" . . . David Robie talks Eyes of Fire just after receiving the first copy of his book marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985
Tahiti

David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront...

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July 16, 2025
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"Legends of the Pacific: Stories of a Nuclear-Free Moana 1975-1995"
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NFIP activists, advocates to open nuclear-free Pacific exhibition

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July 12, 2025
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One of many Rongelap people who had to leave their ancestral home via the Rainbow Warrior due to nuclear
Tahiti

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow...

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July 10, 2025
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The Castle Bravo test was 1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific...

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July 7, 2025
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The bombed Rainbow Warrior next morning
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July 3, 2025
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Investigative journalist Richard Baker's SBS "Fallout" podcast on the Rainbow Warrior and the Norfolk Island connection
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Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast

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Te Mareikura Whakataka Brightwell
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Tahiti prepares for its first Matari’i public holiday

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June 30, 2025
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The Gambier Islands
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French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area

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June 11, 2025
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Drones light up the night sky in Nice with a "One Ocean" message as a prelude to the UN Oceans conference
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Pacific civil society groups challenge France over hosting UN oceans event...

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June 10, 2025
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A poster highlighting the issue of political prisoners depicting the Kanak flag after the pro-independence unrest and riots
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New Caledonia, French Polynesia at UN decolonisation seminar in Dili

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May 21, 2025
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All of New Caledonia’s political parties engaged in a video conference with French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls
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Leaked ‘working paper’ on New Caledonia’s political future sparks new concerns

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April 14, 2025
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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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Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

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The stiff-right-arm salute and the phrase “Heil Hitler,” used to signify allegiance to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, were captured in previously unseen 2007 footage involving Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt
Democracy

Samoan PM La’aulialemalietoa apologises for historical ‘Heil Hitler’ video

Students from the Mount St Mary Primary School at the Ecumenical and Interfaith
Civil Society

Fiji PM Rabuka urges climate action as Pacific hosts pre-COP31 meeting

SCO's Nurlan Yermekbayev
Analysis

Eugene Doyle: The quiet general – and the fast growing Eurasian...

The US bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, on 28 February 2026 killed at least 156 people -- 120 of them children, 26 teachers, all women
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‘The school that became a grave’ – Jeremy Scahill on US...

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The stiff-right-arm salute and the phrase “Heil Hitler,” used to signify allegiance to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, were captured in previously unseen 2007 footage involving Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt
Democracy

Samoan PM La’aulialemalietoa apologises for historical ‘Heil Hitler’ video

Students from the Mount St Mary Primary School at the Ecumenical and Interfaith
Civil Society

Fiji PM Rabuka urges climate action as Pacific hosts pre-COP31 meeting

SCO's Nurlan Yermekbayev
Analysis

Eugene Doyle: The quiet general – and the fast growing Eurasian...

The US bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, on 28 February 2026 killed at least 156 people -- 120 of them children, 26 teachers, all women
Analysis

‘The school that became a grave’ – Jeremy Scahill on US...

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The stiff-right-arm salute and the phrase “Heil Hitler,” used to signify allegiance to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, were captured in previously unseen 2007 footage involving Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt

Samoan PM La’aulialemalietoa apologises for historical ‘Heil Hitler’ video

October 5, 2026
Students from the Mount St Mary Primary School at the Ecumenical and Interfaith

Fiji PM Rabuka urges climate action as Pacific hosts pre-COP31 meeting

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SCO's Nurlan Yermekbayev

Eugene Doyle: The quiet general – and the fast growing Eurasian...

October 4, 2026
The US bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, on 28 February 2026 killed at least 156 people -- 120 of them children, 26 teachers, all women

‘The school that became a grave’ – Jeremy Scahill on US...

October 3, 2026
Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt

Media demand answers after Samoan PM’s security reportedly deletes journalist’s photos

October 3, 2026
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