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    • Gaza freedom flotilla activist Hāhona Ormsby (right) being welcomed home at Auckland International Airport on Sunday
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A deradicalisation that would make it preposterous for Shabana Mahmood, Britain’s Home Secretary, to call demonstrations against a two-year genocide “fundamentally un-British”
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Back in Aotearoa at Auckland International Airport today after the Israeli military abducted Global Sumud Flotilla participants on international waters heading for Gaza last month
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‘Treated like animals’ – NZer activists detained by Israeli forces arrive...

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South Tarawa in Kiribati
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Amnesty International wants NZ visa for climate-hit Pacific islanders

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October 10, 2025
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Columnist Matthew Hooton's article justifying Foreign Minister Winston Peters' stance on Palestine
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Misleading ‘justification’ column on Peters and Palestine panned

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How Al Jazeera reported the Gaza ceasefire deal
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Netanyahu claims ceasefire ‘success’ but Israeli public sees him as obstacle

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Al Jazeera senior analyst Marwan Bishara warns that beyond a Gaza ceasefire, the Trump plan eyes hegemonic peace that favors Israel
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PSNA cautiously welcomes Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal

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October 9, 2025
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Gaza's "port" area showing the degree of devastation
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Two years after October 7: Israel’s war, Gaza’s ashes, and the...

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October 9, 2025
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Signing the Pukpuk Treaty
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The Pukpuk Treaty and the future of Papua New Guinea-Australia relations

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October 9, 2025
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Flotilla trio Rana Hamida (from left), Youssef Sammour and Samuel Leason
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NZ flotilla members arrive in Jordan, state news agency says

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October 8, 2025
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Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama announces the caretaker Bougainville Executive Council (BEC)
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Bougainville president sworn in after landslide re-election, names caretaker government

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Defiant pariah state leader Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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John Hobbs: Why New Zealand’s repugnant stance over Palestine damages our...

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Celebrated Middle East expert and journalist Chris Hedges . . . out, replaced by a former IDF colonel now ambassador by Australia's National Press Club?
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Polling was scheduled to begin yesterday but was pushed back a day to allow time to dispatch ballot papers
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Gazan journalist Mariam Dagga in a last note to her son
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Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza....

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Indonesian authorities say the group were transferred due to "security concerns"
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Prisoner transfer sparks new human rights concerns in West Papua

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PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) held bilateral discussions with the United Nations Secretary-General
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"His favourite merchant." - Mr Fish
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Chris Hedges: The betrayal of Palestinian journalists

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A photo of the Philippine media assembled by and flown to Israel
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Dr Anthony Bellanger, the French general-secretary of the Brussels-based International FeDeration of Journalists, talks to Al Jazeera in an interview today on the death toll of Gazan journalists
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250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli...

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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
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Fijian PM Rabuka hints at ‘historic’ referendum after landmark court ruling

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September 1, 2025
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Massacre of Gaza journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest today

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September 1, 2025
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Palestinian activist Nadine Mortaja announces the planned "March for Humanity"
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Police plan for march which will shut Auckland Harbour Bridge this...

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Pacific verdict on COP29
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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
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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
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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
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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

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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

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West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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