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Honiara lockdown
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Solomon Islands imposes 60 hour Honiara lockdown over covid outbreak

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Atatā island, Tonga 18012022
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Tonga eruption: Images appear to show most of Atatā island wiped...

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Labour MP Jenny Salesa
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Tongan community welcomes official word from Tongan government

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Mango island, Tonga
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Tongan government confirms all homes on Mango destroyed, fears death toll...

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A P-3K2 Orion aircraft flies over Nomuka island
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Gallery: What the NZ air crew saw at Tonga’s Nomuka –...

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January 18, 2022
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Volcanic ash carpets Nomuka on Tonga's
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Tonga eruption: New Zealand sends two navy ships with supplies, water

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January 18, 2022
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Covid-19 testing in Auckland
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More omicron in Auckland possible after MIQ worker’s contact tests positive

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January 18, 2022
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Tonga Communications Corporation
Disasters

Eruption renews debate on lack of backup for Tongan communications

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January 18, 2022
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Fiji's Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
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Fiji’s AG blames Tongan tsunami warning delay on ‘agency liaison’

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January 18, 2022
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Tonga's undersea cable repairs needed
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Tonga’s undersea communications cable could take weeks to repair

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January 18, 2022
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Tongan geologists view the Hunga eruption
Australia

Tongan volcanic eruption reveals the vulnerabilities in global telecommunications

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January 18, 2022
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Satellite images of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano before and after the 15-01-2022 eruption.
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Anxious Tongans in NZ await volcano news from home: ‘It’s painful,...

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January 17, 2022
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Destiny Church's Brian Tamaki
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Brian Tamaki remanded in custody for alleged breach of bail conditions

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NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
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PM Ardern on covid-19 vaccine for children, booster doses and Tonga

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January 17, 2022
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Tsunami waves in Tonga
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NZ Air Force plane leaves for Tonga to assess volcano eruption...

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Former Tahiti president Gaston Flosse
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Veteran Tahiti politician Flosse accuses France of causing his ‘political death’

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NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
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Tonga volcano eruption and tsunami – 120 evacuated in NZ’s Far...

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Hunga-Ha’apai and Hunga-Tonga erupting in Tonga
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Why the volcanic eruption in Tonga was so violent, and what...

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Tsunami flooding in the Tongan capital of Nuku'alofa
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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
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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
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
Coronavirus

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.”
Analysis

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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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

"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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27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

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APJS NEWSFILE

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

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.
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Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)
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Te Pāti Māori's co-leader Rawiri Waititi (left) landed a "killer blow" to New Zealand First leader Winston Peters in last night's TVNZ election debate
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NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon
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PIF Secretary-General Baron Divavesi Waqa with Israeli Ambassador Maya Yaron
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Israel joins Pacific Islands Forum as development partner

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon
Decolonisation

‘Serious questions to answer’ – Labour slams Luxon over Israel’s Pacific...

Sacha Roytman, chief executive of Combat Antisemitism Movement
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Israelis mislead Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism

US envoy to UN Tammy Bruce
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Part of a fullpage Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) advertisement in The New Zealand Herald

‘Please explain’, Palestine Forum tells NZ over Israeli-Pacific Islands Forum ‘partnership’

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Israel joins Pacific Islands Forum as development partner

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Sacha Roytman, chief executive of Combat Antisemitism Movement

Israelis mislead Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism

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US envoy to UN Tammy Bruce

US envoy seeks ‘termination’ of UN decolonisation committee, slams Pacific ‘junkets’

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A focus on information-sharing between countries, which, on Fiji's part, requires a reform programme "to address fragmentation"

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