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    • No adversary has damaged Western civilisation as profoundly as Israel
      Analysis

      Iran never made the West abandon its own principles. Israel did.

      Candidates Alani Fisher Taione, Lemauga Lydia Sosene, and Vicky Hau
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      Māngere voters left ‘wanting more’ as local candidates pitch for support

      Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay
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      Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay praised, pilloried, ignored by Australia

      Masked Kumul 23 elite police tactical force members
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      Eight dead in September violence at Papua New Guinea’s troubled Porgera

      The Global March for Palestine in Auckland
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Chief Superintendent Clement Dala . . . PNG's courts and prisons are "completely overrun"
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Papua New Guinea police blame overrun system for prison breakouts

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June 26, 2025
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Palestinians face daily pogroms from brutal illegal Israeli settlers in the ocupied West Bank
Asia Report

Iran accuses US over ‘torpedoed diplomacy’ – passes bill to halt...

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June 25, 2025
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President Emmanuel Macron (right) with New Caledonia Congress former presidents Louis Mapou (left) and Roch Wamytan (centre) last yea
Decolonisation

Macron invites all New Caledonia stakeholders for Paris talks

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June 25, 2025
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Under the Cook Islands constitution, New Zealand cannot pass laws for the Cook Islands
China

Nearly half of Kiwis oppose automatic citizenship for Cook Islands, says...

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June 25, 2025
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PNG Prime Minister James Marape (second from left) and other Melanesian leaders at the MSG summit
Development

Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders discuss Middle East conflict before ceasefire

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June 25, 2025
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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka
Asia Report

Fiji advocacy group slams Indonesian role in MSG as a ‘disgrace’

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June 25, 2025
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Israel accepts the ceasefire
Analysis

Ramzy Baroud: The fallout – winners and losers from the Israeli...

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June 24, 2025
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The UN Security Council in emergency session yesterday discussing the US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities
Asia Report

Calls for New Zealand to denounce United States attack on Iran

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June 24, 2025
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A protester at the Palestine rally against Israel's Gaza genocide and attack on Iran
Asia Report

NZ Greens call on state to condemn US over ‘dangerous’ attack...

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June 23, 2025
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A C-130J Hercules at Whenuapai RNZAF base
Asia Report

Defence Force to send plane to assist New Zealanders stranded in...

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June 23, 2025
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Guam's Governor Lou Leon Guerrero says missile testing and housing nuclear weapons on the US Pacific territory is a way of deterring aggression
Asia Report

Leaders in US-affiliated Pacific react to surprise strikes on Iran

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June 23, 2025
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NCD Governor Powes Parkop with a West Papua flag
Asia Report

Pro-independence advocates urge MSG to elevate West Papua membership

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June 23, 2025
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A "No Iran War" placard as protests across Iran and around the world condemn Israeli and US aggression
Asia Report

Illegal US attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities came in spite of...

Pacific Media Watch -
June 22, 2025
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PSNA co-chair Maher Nazzal (left) at yesterday's Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland
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NZ group slams Israeli ‘hoodwinking’ of US over nuclear strikes –...

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June 22, 2025
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New Zealand protesters in Auckland yesterday condemning the genocide in Gaza
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US strikes: Ignore the propaganda, 10 forces will shape the Iran-Israel...

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June 22, 2025
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Protesters shout slogans and hold placards during a national demonstration against the Israeli wars on Gaza, occupied Palestine and Iran
Asia Report

Starving Gaza civilians toll climbs at Israeli humanitarian ‘death traps’

Pacific Media Watch -
June 22, 2025
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Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have protested in Iran against Israel.
Analysis

Another Iraq? Military expert warns US has no real plan if...

APR editor -
June 22, 2025
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New Zealand Palestinian artist and activist Rana Hamida
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Analyst dismisses ‘lie by rogue’ Netanyahu over Iran’s nuclear programme

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June 21, 2025
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Wartime Israeli paranoia
Asia Report

Israel blocks Gaza aid organisations’ access to fuel, hospitals running out

APR editor -
June 21, 2025
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A Cook Islands resident, Jackie Tuara,
Asia Report

Former New Zealand PM Helen Clark blames Cook Islands for crisis

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June 21, 2025
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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
Asia Report

Mark Brown: Cook Islands ‘not consulted’ on NZ-China agreements

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June 20, 2025
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Destabilised uranium enrichment centrifuges at Natanz, and possibly the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, could cause them to vibrate and spin uncontrollably
Analysis

Eugene Doyle: How centrifugal forces have been unleashed in Iran

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June 20, 2025
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CLIMATE AND COVID

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

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”
Analysis

Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

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
Analysis

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...

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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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No adversary has damaged Western civilisation as profoundly as Israel
Analysis

Iran never made the West abandon its own principles. Israel did.

Candidates Alani Fisher Taione, Lemauga Lydia Sosene, and Vicky Hau
Civil Society

Māngere voters left ‘wanting more’ as local candidates pitch for support

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay praised, pilloried, ignored by Australia

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No adversary has damaged Western civilisation as profoundly as Israel
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Iran never made the West abandon its own principles. Israel did.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay
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No adversary has damaged Western civilisation as profoundly as Israel

Iran never made the West abandon its own principles. Israel did.

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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay

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October 13, 2026
Masked Kumul 23 elite police tactical force members

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