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"The silence of governments like ours imagines this dystopia as a new baseline"
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"If the Samoan Prime Minister is truly concerned about the vision of journalists, he need only look at those closest to him"
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JAWS president Lagi Keresoma
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The pōwhiri for the start of the four-day WIPCE 2025
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Samoan PM La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt
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ABC's Fiji correspondent Lice Movono (from left), RNZ Pacific manager Moera Tuilaipa-Taylor and Islands Business editor Samantha Magick speaking during a women empowerment panel at the 2024 Pacific Media International conference
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu portrayed on a placard at a New Zealand pro-Palestine rally
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Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet...

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Australian author says shadow Gaza transit scheme company is operating ‘disaster...

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November 15, 2025
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Palestinian rally MC Lamees Elthiny speaks to a protest rally in Auckland today themed on the "BDS - Boycott Divestments Sanctions" campaign against New Zealand companies alleged to be complicit with Israel's genocide in Gaza
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New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership

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November 15, 2025
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Pacific youth climate activist at a demonstration at COP27 in 2022
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Australian mentor Bob Howarth with journalists in Timor-Leste
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Palau’s leader urges stronger climate action after New Zealand lowers methane...

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"By helping each other we save each other."
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Saige England: if we want to save the planet we need...

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Cook Island activists peacefully confront the Nautilus at Rarotonga port last month, holding banners proclaiming "Don’t Mine The Moana"
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Palestinians mourn their relatives who were killed by the Israeli military in air strikes in spite of the Gaza ceasefire on 19 October 2025
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The 60+ UN member states complicit with the Gaza genocide –...

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Australian journalist Roger Domm with Falintil resistance fighters in Timor-Leste in 1990
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USTKE and other inter-union members met French Overseas Minister Naïma Moutchou on her visit to Camp Est prison in Nouméa
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French Overseas Minister holds marathon political talks in New Caledonia

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New documentary presents detailed accounts of Israeli soldiers opening fire unprovoked on civilians running toward food handouts
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Israeli soldiers killed civilians, aid seekers in Gaza free-for-all ‘at wish...

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PNG Prime Minister James Marape (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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Israel thanks Fiji and PNG for opening Jerusalem embassies, UN support

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Leonora Tumala shares her frustration after their homes in Daet were crushed by a tree in the typhoon
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80 Camarines Norte barangays isolated after Typhoon Uwan hits Philippines

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November 11, 2025
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Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaking at the opening of COP30, yesterday
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COP30: Pacific nations call for world to act as 1.5C threshold...

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