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    • Fiji's Lautoka City Council says it has started in collaboration with the Fiji Police Force
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      Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) activist Neil Scott
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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese addresses The Hague Group Summit
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12 countries agree to confront Israel collectively over Gaza after Bogotá...

APR editor -
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Susi Newborn, a Greenpeace founder, Rainbow Warrior crew stalwart, activist and author
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Susi Newborn among activists featured in Pacific ‘nuclear free heroes’ video

Pacific Media Watch -
July 17, 2025
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"Hot off the press" . . . David Robie talks Eyes of Fire just after receiving the first copy of his book marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985
Civil Society

David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront...

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July 16, 2025
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Zionist settllers attack Palestinian homes and cars at the village of Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank
Asia Report

First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’

Pacific Media Watch -
July 16, 2025
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Incumbent Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama
Bougainville

Bougainville election: More than 400 candidates vie for parliament

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July 16, 2025
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UN peacekeepers advocated by DAWN for Gaza
Analysis

UN expert advocates peacekeeper path to break Israel’s siege on Gaza

APR editor -
July 15, 2025
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Sacked head of the Fiji anti-corruption agency FICAC
Fiji

Fiji govt offers NZ$1.5m settlement to former anti-corruption head for ruined...

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July 15, 2025
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Protesters against Israel's genocide in Gaza and attacks on the occupied West Bank take to the streets in Devonport last weekend
Asia Report

Australian bid to criminalise Palestine support creates ‘hierarchy of racism’, says...

Pacific Media Watch -
July 15, 2025
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Cook Islands will mark 60 years of self-governance in free association with New Zealand on August 4
China

Luxon and Peters to miss Cook Islands’ 60th Constitution Day celebrations

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July 15, 2025
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A funeral has been held in the occupied West Bank for both the young Palestinians killed by Israeli settlers, Sayfollah ‘Saif’ Mussalet, an American Palestinian from Tampa, Florida, and Muhammad Shalabi
Asia Report

Israeli settlers beat to death 2 Palestinians in latest lynchings

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July 14, 2025
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How Kanaky New Caledonia's public broadcaster NC La 1ère reported the news
Decolonisation

New Caledonia’s political parties commit to ‘historic’ statehood deal

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July 13, 2025
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Labour's disarmament and associate foreign affairs spokesperson Phil Twyford speaking
Decolonisation

Twyford praises NFIP lead, calls for inspired peace and regionalism

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July 12, 2025
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"Legends of the Pacific: Stories of a Nuclear-Free Moana 1975-1995"
Climate

NFIP activists, advocates to open nuclear-free Pacific exhibition

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July 12, 2025
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Author David Robie with his latest book, Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior.
Civil Society

Author condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests...

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July 11, 2025
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The Rainbow Warrior III on the eve of the memorial service for Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira
Crime

‘Storm clouds are gathering’: 40 years on from the bombing of...

APR editor -
July 10, 2025
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Rainbow Warrior host Niamh O'Flynn talks to author David Robie in the ship's mess as part of the virtual tour
Climate

Author David Robie joins Greenpeace virtual tour of Rainbow Warrior

Pacific Media Watch -
July 10, 2025
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One of many Rongelap people who had to leave their ancestral home via the Rainbow Warrior due to nuclear
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Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow...

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July 10, 2025
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Journalist David Robie talking in a live cross to ABC News in Australia from the Rainbow Warrior dawn memorial service for Fernando Pereira on the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland
Crime

Dawn service held 40 years on from Rainbow Warrior bombing

Pacific Media Watch -
July 10, 2025
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Crime

Author David Robie tells of outrage over sinking of the Rainbow...

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July 9, 2025
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Thousands of New Zealanders in weekly protest marches in support of Palestine over the past 21 months have shown their displeasure over their government's foreign policy stance over Israel's war on Gaza
Asia Report

Academic slams NZ government over ‘compromised’ foreign policy

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July 8, 2025
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Flashback to Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara's funeral in 2004
Fiji

How live TV technology changes have opened up remote areas of...

Pacific Media Watch -
July 8, 2025
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ABG House Speaker Simon Pentanu will has issued the writs for the fifth general elections in September
Bougainville

Bougainville election process begins as writs issued for September poll

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July 8, 2025
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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
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
Analysis

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

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
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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
Analysis

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"
Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
Asia Report

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

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

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APJS NEWSFILE

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

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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Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

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All smiles for Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale
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EDITOR'S PICKS

Fiji's Lautoka City Council says it has started in collaboration with the Fiji Police Force
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Taiwan Day event in Suva
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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Colonel Nochi Mendel ordered the Israeli drone strike that killed seven aid workers in April 2024
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Pro-Palestine activists at a public meeting in Auckland last night planning for the New Zealand share of the Global March for Palestine
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US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, and New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters mark the announcement of the Penrhyn port project in Palau
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