ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on January 17, 2026.
Bonds, blockings and bans – a massive new-year US shakeup for Pacific travel
By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist From heavy visa bonds to suspended applications to straight-up travel bans, the United States has implemented or announced sweeping restrictions on Pacific travel in just the first two weeks of 2026. Confirmed on Thursday, Fiji is among a list of 75 countries for which the US will suspend the
Taking paracetamol in pregnancy doesn’t increase your baby’s risk of autism or ADHD – new review
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anya Arthurs, Research Fellow in Cell and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University If you’ve been pregnant in the past few months, you may have faced a dilemma. You wake up with a fever, a pounding headache or back pain – and then
Israeli society has ‘become completely genocidal’, says B’Tselem head
Team Zeteo The cost of telling the truth from inside a society that has become “completely genocidal” is very high, says Yuli Novak, executive director of the human rights watchdog B’Tselem. Novak, one of the most uncompromising dissident voices within Israel, speaks frankly in this latest episode of Zeteo’s Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman in
Eugene Doyle: Iran in the vortex – what’s really going on and the ‘invisible hand’ of Israel?
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle If you want to understand what’s going on in Iran, abandon what the Persians invented centuries ago: Manichaeism. We use the term today to denote political framing which is simplistic, black-and-white, two-dimensional — a world of Angels (us) and Demons (them). This article recognises multiple perspectives, including those of an activist
Eugene Doyle: Iran in the vortex – what’s really going on and the ‘invisible hand’ of Israel?
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle If you want to understand what’s going on in Iran, abandon what the Persians invented centuries ago: Manichaeism. We use the term today to denote political framing which is simplistic, black-and-white, two-dimensional — a world of Angels (us) and Demons (them). This article recognises multiple perspectives, including those of an activist
In a new production of Turandot, Opera Australia has found a star vehicle for Young Woo Kim
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Larkin, Senior Lecturer in Musicology, University of Sydney Opera Australia © Keith Saunders Were operas to be identified like episodes of Friends, Turandot would be “the one with Nessun Dorma”. This beloved tenor aria has achieved a life of its own away from its parent opera.
As Victoria’s Great Ocean Road flash floods show, we need to get better at taking warnings seriously
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rory Nathan, Honorary Professor Hydrology and Water Resources, The University of Melbourne The images and stories of flash flooding coming out of Victoria’s Great Ocean Road overnight have been described as “terrifying”. It’s easy to see why. Holidaymakers at Victoria’s Wye River watched as cars were swept
