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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted on an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, begins his controversial speech at UNGA

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‘Baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide’ – Mayor Mamdani hits back after Netanyahu’s attacks during UN speech

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Te Ao With Moana

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Māori delegates defend controversial ‘Indigenous’ trips to Israel

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

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Palestine advocacy group criticises NZ failure over Gaza human rights test

Fijian Media Association general secretary Stanley Simpson (right) greets Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka at the 8th Pacific Media Summit in Savusavu

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Rabuka urges Pacific media to verify facts, warns over rise of AI

New Zealand protesters against the Israeli genocide in Gaza

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Erdogan slams Israel’s ‘genocidal mindset’ in blistering UN address

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Samoa Observer: Democracy tested as Samoa celebrates independence

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Former Fiji surgeon Dr Jone Hawea

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Fiji police arrest outspoken former surgeon over covid ‘misinformation’

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French police on patrol in Noumea's central Place des Cocotiers

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New Caledonia imposes curfew as delta outbreak new cases hit 256

September 14, 2021

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Backes rejects delaying New Caledonia independence referendum

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Fiji's Health Secretary Dr James Fong

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Fiji braces for pandemic third wave as omicron cases found in...

January 4, 2022

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#COP21: ‘Filthy’ corporate sponsors bankrolling Paris summit exposed

January 11, 2016

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Global media groups urge Timor-Leste PM to drop defamation case

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April 22, 2016

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Duterte pulls off huge Philippines win, Marcos trailing narrowly

May 11, 2016

The burnt out motorbike in front of Papua LBH office

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Activists demand full probe into terror attack on Papuan legal aid...

May 13, 2022

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Polynesian leaders group gathers in Tahiti for climate change update

June 29, 2016

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Indigenous West Papuans send solidarity to Standing Rock

December 5, 2016

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‘With or without you, we’ll sail in both worlds’ – 50...

September 14, 2022

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa

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Ressa ‘disappointed’ over failed appeal and ongoing harassment in Philippine cyber...

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October 13, 2022

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More women in Solomon Islands politics — how it needs to...

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Inside PNG opinion - PNG Parliament Haus

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Inside PNG: Media must be watchdog not government-controlled

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February 23, 2023

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Indonesian universities ‘ban’ niqab over fundamentalism fears

March 13, 2018

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Pacific Forum backs ‘constructive engagement’ over West Papua

September 7, 2018

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NZ Royal Commission to probe security agencies, says Ardern

March 25, 2019

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Prabowo camp to ‘report US journalist’ over Indonesian poll strategy exposé

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April 17, 2019

Sir Julius Chan

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‘I’m not PNG’s acting PM,’ caretaker Sir Julius Chan tells nation

May 27, 2019

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Media access to MPs crucial for democracy, say Pacific journalists

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June 24, 2019

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New Zealand activists urge PM Ardern to act now on West...

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August 30, 2019

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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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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

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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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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

BEARING WITNESS

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

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Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

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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Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

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Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

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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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

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Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

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Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

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Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

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Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

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Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

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