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The UNSC resolution not only makes US President Donald Trump the effective leader of the new administrative force that will be imposed upon the Gaza Strip, but also greenlights what it calls its International Stabilisation Force
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The UN Security Council adopted the US-sponsored Gaza resolution 13 votes to nil
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IDF failed on battlefield to disarm Hamas, but UN vote gives...

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"The silence of governments like ours imagines this dystopia as a new baseline"
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Marilyn Garson: How shall we speak now since the Gaza ‘ceasefire’?

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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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Samoa Observer: The PM’s wish and our promise

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JAWS president Lagi Keresoma
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Samoan PM bans nation’s only newspaper from government access

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The pōwhiri for the start of the four-day WIPCE 2025
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World’s largest indigenous education conference kicks off in Auckland

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Samoan PM La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt
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Samoan PM back home as journalist alleges assault outside his residence

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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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Pro-Palestinian activist Lamees Elthiny speaking to protesters in Auckland
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Australian author says shadow Gaza transit scheme company is operating ‘disaster...

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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
Asia Report

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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November 15, 2025
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Australian mentor Bob Howarth with journalists in Timor-Leste
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Palau's Surangel S. Whipps Jr addresses the Climate Summit 2025, a high-Level special event on Climate Action, at COP30 in Brazil
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"By helping each other we save each other."
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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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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"
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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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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
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Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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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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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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