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The Facebook ban on In-Depth Solomons reports
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Participants in the recent Pacific International Media Conference 2024
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"All Out For Kanaky"
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New Zealand is about to sacrifice what it cannot afford to lose for something it doesn’t need
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Eugene Doyle: It’s bigger than NATO and it’s heading our way

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Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016
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Mining giant RioTinto
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Thousands of Bougainville residents support lawsuit against mining giant

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French riot police near the spot - marked with a tribal offering - where 19-year-old Jybril Salo was shot in the back last May.
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Australian academic and social justIce advocate Helen Hill
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Professor Vijay Naidu
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The International Court of Justice has ruled Israel’s occupation of the Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal
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A Kanaky prison parallel with Palestine
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Suspended Fiji Director of Public Prosecutions Christopher Pryde
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Tahiti’s ‘old lion’ Gaston Flosse, 93, steps down after 52 years...

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CLIMATE AND COVID

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
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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
Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

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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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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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West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
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