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Former Fiji prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama arrives at the Police CID headquarters in Suva last night before being charged and held at Totogo Police Station
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Suspended Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho (right in shadows walking outside Suva's CID headquarters)
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Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre coordinator Shamima Ali
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Suva lawyer Richard Naidu
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Ex-Fiji prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama
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Shoes donated by a woman passerby in the Pink Shoe event at the St Patrick's Cathedral plaza, Auckland, today
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Children in Vanuatu after cyclones Judy and Kevin
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Several transport groups staged a strike yesterday in support of a better deal for jeepney owners and drivers as part of the Philippines government's modernisation programme
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Today's PNG Post-Courier front page . . . teachers alleged to have tortured the women on a Porgera school campus 070323
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Measles and rubella vaccine . . . outbreak of cases in Central Papua
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Government transport policy plan
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A ni-Vanuatu family at the Blacksands community in Port Vila on Efate Island in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Kevin
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Outspoken Rob Campbell, ousted as chair of two major government agencies
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A flooded road on Vanuatu's Efate island after Tropical Cyclone Kevin struck
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Some of PNG's media stakeholders at the draft media policy consultation in Port Moresby last Thursday
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Assistant Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation Sashi Kiran (second from left) with Fiji Women's Rights Movement staff during the launch of the research report "Beyond 33 percent"
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A little-known arrangement that puts proceedings of New Zealand's Parliament on the air has been cited as a threat to AM broadcasting's future
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Port Vila-based journalist Dan McGarry has a big clean up on his hands
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New Zealand's Sky Television
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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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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
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
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Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

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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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