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Images have been circulating on social media of Indonesian rockets that have been reportedly fired on villages
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Professor Richard Jackson
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Otago academics plan declaration on Palestine to ‘face daily horrors’

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French gendarmes on guard at Noumea's central Place des Cocotiers
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The controversial 2024 Amsterdam football clashes
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West Papuan resistance fighters
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Vibes Kava co-founders Charles Byram (left) and Derek Hillen
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President Donald Trump's back turned
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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) with President Prabowo Subianto at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, in April 2025
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Siome of the participants in the Aotearoa Philippines national assembly in Auckland yesterday
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Renowned Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot by an Israeli sniper in the head on 11 May 2022
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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV began his first homily with words in English instead of his fluent Italian and Spanish during mass in the Sistine Chapel with the College of Cardinals
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Gordon Campbell's Scoop column on the Pope and the Israeli Institute
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Paula Whetu Jones (right) on finally completing her feature length documentary about the Auckland cardiac surgeon Dr Allan Kerr.
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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican
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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

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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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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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Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin
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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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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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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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