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"Affirmed, noted, endorsed" at the 55th Pacific Islands Forum leaders summit media conference in Koror
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Pacific Islands Forum leaders in Koror – heavy on reaffirming but light on tasking

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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
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Rabuka calls on Fijians to use freedom of expression ‘responsibly’

KNPB international spokesperson Victor Yeimo
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PNG's Women in Media founder Belinda Kora
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A Chinese strategic nuclear submarine launched a warhead-carrying missile in July
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Pacific Islands Forum winds up by condemning China nuclear test

Leaders at the round table for the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting Plenary in Koror, Palau
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Pacific Islands Forum: Should outside nations be allowed at the leaders’...

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President Surangel Whipps talking over the chairmanship of the PIF, making his remarks at the opening of the 55th PIFLM in Palau
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Pacific leaders urged to be united behind 2050 climate action vision

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

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Caretaker Prime Minister and Cook Islands Party leader Mark Brown with supporters on election night
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The author, Laurens Ikinia, with extended whānau - family (he is pictured fourth from left)
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Indonesia at 81 – who owns the Land of Papua’s...

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Contesting the Cook Islands elections
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Two-way battle – no clear majority as Cook Islands prepares for...

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Fiji has been an independent nation since 1970 and a republic since 1987
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Ashneel Jaynesh Prasad: Fiji’s flag – a conversation we must have

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The Malvatumauri National Council of Chiefs
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Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre blasts ‘misogynistic attack’ over MSG leadership

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Fiji Minister of Information Lynda Tabuya
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NZ govt says it had no influence over $200,000 doco ahead...

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PNAG's Joey Tau in Honiara
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Has the Pacific’s Ocean of Peace concept been hijacked?

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Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jnr
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Palau’s President warns of rising nuclear anxiety in the Pacific, after...

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Pacific Elders Voice group's chair Anote Tong
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Pacific at a crossroads amid growing geopolitical tension, says former leaders’...

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PNG Prime Minister James Marape
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‘Stop firing missiles in our ocean’ – Pacific reacts to China...

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A "Stop RIMPAC forever" poster.
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RIMPAC 2026: Part 2 – Hawai’ian activist torpedoes lies about US...

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Press TV journalist Hadi Hoteit reporting in southern Lebanon
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The Gaza doctrine – Israeli ‘journacide’ and the muted NZ media...

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Fiji and Israel relations
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All Blacks captain 2026 Ardie Savea
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‘One of the greatest honours in sport’ – Ardie Savea as...

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Tanna's Chief Peter Marcel
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Ben Bohane: Umaenupne and Umaeneg – isles of the Resting God

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A mini banner inspired and dedicated to Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network and the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre protests
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Fijians for Palestine – an antidote to ‘Suva sycophancy’ over Israel

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Film director Dandhy Laksono
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‘Threat to democracy’ – Indonesian filmmaker slams military crackdown on Papua...

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PNG's Parliament Haus in Port Moresby
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New bid to tackle Papua New Guinea’s chronic lack of women...

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Papua's Tom Beanal
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Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’

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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...

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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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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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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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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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"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"
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West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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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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QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)
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