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The Pacific Islands Forum's "Troika-Plus" leaders (right) hold a talanoa session with New Caledonia President Louis Mapou
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Forum troika’s visit highlights value of regionalism for New Caledonia

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Pacific Islands Forum "troika-plus" leaders have visited Kanaky New Caledonia on a fact-finding mission
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Pacific leaders’ mission to Nouméa – Mapou says New Caledonia at...

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October 30, 2024
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Speakers at the People's Forum Session on Freedom of Expression at CHOGM 2024
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Commonwealth takes bold step to protect freedom of expression

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October 30, 2024
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Israel's UNRWA ban stirs worldwide condemnation as attacks on Gaza branded as "ethnic cleansing"
Asia Report

‘Outrageous’, ‘intolerable’, ‘dangerous precedent’ – world condemns Israel’s UNRWA ban

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October 29, 2024
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More than 100 New Zealand police - half of them Samoan
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‘Climate’ CHOGM success for Samoa but what’s in it for the...

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October 29, 2024
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) meeting with new Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto
Asia Report

Wenda praises PNG’s Marape over ‘brave ambush’ on West Papua

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October 29, 2024
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Gaza . . . in the wake of the destructive war
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Echoes of a Lost Gaza – Al Jazeera documentary on a...

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October 29, 2024
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The Washington Post masthead
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Two of the US’s biggest newspapers have refused to endorse a...

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October 28, 2024
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The Pacific Islands Forum troika delegation visits New Caledonia’s Congress President Veylma Falaéo
Decolonisation

Pacific leaders’ troika begins New Caledonia fact-finding mission

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October 28, 2024
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Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar
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Binoy Kampmark: Bitter harvests – the killing of Yahya Sinwar and...

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October 28, 2024
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Reverend Billy Wetewea
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Kanak pastor advocates for ‘hope and ‘humanity’ as Pacific leaders visit...

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October 28, 2024
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Filipino rescuers at work in Mangcayo barangay near Vinzons, Bicol
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Remote Mangcayo school among areas hit by Typhoon Kristine floods

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October 28, 2024
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Tuvalu's Transport, Energy, and Communications Minister Simon Kofe
Australia

‘We have to keep pressuring Australia to do the right thing’,...

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October 27, 2024
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Protesters at Molodoï, Strasbourg, demanding the release of Kanak indigenous political prisoners being detained in France
Decolonisation

UN experts ‘alarmed’ by Kanaky New Caledonia deaths as Pacific fact-finding...

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October 26, 2024
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Journalists at Taipei's Grand Hotel reception celebrating seven years of the Asia Pacific regional office of RSF
Australia

RSF tackles Taiwan’s media freedom ‘Achilles heel’, boosts Asia Pacific monitoring...

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October 26, 2024
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A police landcruiser patrols the streets of the Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby
Crime

PNG bus shooting: ‘This sort of revenge killing is unheard of’

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October 25, 2024
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A Fiji protester at the weekly vigil for a Gaza ceasefire and decolonisation in Palestine, Kanaky and West Papua at the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre
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October 25, 2024
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Indonesian security forces block Indigenous West Papuans protesting in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta against land seizures
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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
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Rabuka’s message to free Kanaky movement: ‘Don’t slap the hand that...

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October 25, 2024
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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, who is currently in Apia for the 27th Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), was bestowed with a Samoan matai title
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‘We’ll be talking about the future of negotiations’, says Rabuka on...

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October 24, 2024
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Christchurch citizens hold up a "Stop the genocide" banner before yesterday's council vote
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NZ’s Labour calls on other cities to follow Israel boycott lead

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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"
Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm
Analysis

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
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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
Coronavirus

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

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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...

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