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    • "The [flotilla activists] were then illegally brought to Israel to face further abuse under the watch of Itamar Ben-Gvir, the terrorist thug serving as the Minister of National Security, who caused global outrage."
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      The documentary Pesta Babi has stirred discussions about Papuan development and the impact of deforestation policies
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      A group of five Australians who were on board the Gaza freedom flotilla and spoke of the Israeli abuse and violence on their arrival home
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This screenshot from a video broadcast on Israeli channel Now 14 shows an officer and four soldiers of Israel’s Givati Brigade standing next to Palestinian detainees
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The podcast takes the listener into a room in Seattle, Washington, in 1984, where Greenpeace International leader Steve Sawyer met for the first time with Jeton Anjain
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How Jeton Anjain planned the Rongelap evacuation – new Rainbow Warrior...

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December 5, 2024
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Nelson votes to sanction Israel
Asia Report

Nelson City Council joins NZ local bodies voting to sanction Israel

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December 5, 2024
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Guam Governor Leon Guerrero welcomes Taiwan's President Lai to Guam
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Northern Marianas leaders meet Taiwan President Lai Ching-te in Guam

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December 5, 2024
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The French political impasse
Decolonisation

What the fall of the French government means for New Caledonia

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December 5, 2024
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Arab New Zealanders have been increasingly articulate in Aotearoa
Asia Report

This year, Arab-American political power came to the fore over Gaza

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December 4, 2024
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Taking the world's biggest problem to the world’s highest court for global climate justice
Australia

Climate justice: Action groups livid over Australia’s submission at ICJ

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December 4, 2024
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Vanuatu's Special Envoy for Climate Change and Environment Ralph Regenvanu with advocate Julian Aguon
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Climate justice: Vanuatu’s landmark case at ICJ seeks to hold polluting...

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December 4, 2024
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NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters
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NZ’s Foreign Minister Peters embarks on three-day visit to New Caledonia

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December 3, 2024
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Greenpeace activists, along with representatives of Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui, disrupted the annual general meeting of Manuka Resources
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Norway halts seabed mining, putting more pressure on NZ to do...

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December 3, 2024
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Dark Times Academy's Mandy Henk . . . harmful Pacific disinformation
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New course planned to help Pacific media professionals counter disinformation

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December 3, 2024
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A "Wanted for mass child murder - bring them in" placard at a Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland
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Luxon says Israeli PM would be arrested if he visits New...

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December 3, 2024
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Fiji protesters supporting decolonisation of West Papua, Kanaky - and Palestine
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Wenda calls for West Papuan unity in the face of Jakarta’s...

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December 2, 2024
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Pacific Islander students have led the campaign for the ICJ to consider states' obligations to prevent climate change
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ICJ to begin hearings in landmark Pacific climate change case started...

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December 2, 2024
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Kanaky New Caledonia's CCAT leader Christian Téin detained in France
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Kanak pro-independence leader Christian Téin to remain in mainland French jail

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December 2, 2024
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IDF "Lone Soldiers" arrive from North America
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‘Lone Soldiers’ – new Australian IDF recruits due to arrive in...

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December 2, 2024
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Former NZ Green Party MP Catherine Delahunty speaking for West Papua Action Aotearoa
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Civil society groups call on Pacific leaders to ‘take responsibility’ over...

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December 2, 2024
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Auli'i Cravalho is still great as Moana
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Moana 2: The magic is missing in this half-baked Pacific sequel

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December 2, 2024
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Tamariki raising the West Papuan independence flag Morning Star
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West Papua: Once was Papuan Independence Day, now facing ‘ecocide’, transmigration

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December 1, 2024
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Fiji protesters call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
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Protesters condemn Fiji ‘complicity, silence’ over Israel’s Gaza genocide

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December 1, 2024
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Union Calédonienne’s President Emmanuel Tjibaou (centre)
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Tjibaou’s party unveils plan for New Caledonia’s future ‘independence’

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December 1, 2024
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John Taukave (left) from the Micronesian Center for Sustainable Transport and Miss Samoa Litara Ieremia-Allan (second from left) at COP29
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COP29: Pacific takes stock of ‘baby steps’ global climate summit

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November 30, 2024
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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
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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

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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

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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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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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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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Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

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"The [flotilla activists] were then illegally brought to Israel to face further abuse under the watch of Itamar Ben-Gvir, the terrorist thug serving as the Minister of National Security, who caused global outrage."
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"The [flotilla activists] were then illegally brought to Israel to face further abuse under the watch of Itamar Ben-Gvir, the terrorist thug serving as the Minister of National Security, who caused global outrage."
Analysis

Andy Worthington: The startling severity of Gaza flotilla activists’ rape allegations

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Asia Report

Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims...

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"The [flotilla activists] were then illegally brought to Israel to face further abuse under the watch of Itamar Ben-Gvir, the terrorist thug serving as the Minister of National Security, who caused global outrage."

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