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    • Vanuatu's Anna Naupa (left) has been appointed as the new Melanesian Spearhead Group Director-General
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Israel accused of using captives’ bodies issue to undermine Gaza ceasefire

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About 65,000 people will be eligible to vote on November 20
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Trump’s ‘annexation ban’ is a ploy to push Israeli normalisation

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French MPs vote to postpone New Caledonia’s elections to June 2026

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Protesters accusing Rocket Lab and the New Zealand government of being complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Decades after the nuclear tests, Pacific people still endure many consequences
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"Pacific Justice" petition
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Professor Biman Prasad (left) and Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in December 2022
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The Pacific's inaction is particularly striking when compared to Bougainville
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Blue Pacific’s unfinished business – West Papua and regional integrity

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Unity will be crucial if the Labour Party is to sell its proposed capital gains tax
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A child holds a medical "safe staffing" placard at the mega strike in Auckland
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"News organisations don't often end up in court for [defamation], but when they do it's big news."
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Palestinian journalist and author Plestia Alaqad
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Protesters at an Auckland rally against Israel's genocidal two-year war on Gaza target alleged complicity by RocketLab and BlackSky
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NZ minister warned on possible risk over Israeli use of satellites

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A claim by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that UNRWA is a Hamas “subsidiary” in defiance of International Court of Justice exoneration is “quite shocking”
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Pacific verdict on COP29
Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
Asia Report

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
Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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CORONAVIRUS

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
Analysis

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
Coronavirus

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

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BEARING WITNESS

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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West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016
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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
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Vanuatu's Anna Naupa (left) has been appointed as the new Melanesian Spearhead Group Director-General
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Vanuatu's Anna Naupa (left) has been appointed as the new Melanesian Spearhead Group Director-General

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