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SPECIAL REPORT: By Abdel Qader Sabbah in Gaza City Al-Abd Abu Beid set a box of food rations down on a pile of stones he uses as a makeshift table outside his ramshackle tent on the coastline west of Gaza City. The cardboard box displayed the blue logo of the United Nations World Food Programme
COMMENTARY: By Paul Hopkinson Should small parties that don’t have a chance of getting over 5 percent, get government funding? That is the question I would have answered on The Platform with Michael Laws (before his repugnant statements about women candidates came to light), had Sean Plunket not banned me. That’s right, I received a
The same racist, Zionist logic that justified the Gaza genocide is now making it difficult for the Jewish opposition to reach a deal with Palestinian parties to oust Netanyahu, writes Jonathan Cook. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook Israel’s general election last week unmasked beyond question the West’s much-cherished fiction of Israel as a “Jewish and democratic
ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan New Zealand First leader Winston Peters — a veteran of 18 general elections — has called this long and sometimes fractious campaign “the worst of my career, easily”. But whether you agree with him or not, tomorrow night still promises exciting live entertainment. Will Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his three-party
Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal is part of a network of “special envoys” launched by key pro-Israel bodies and the US State Department. Michael West Media investigates. INVESTIGATION: By Cathy Peters and Wendy Bacon Civil liberties and Palestinian supporters are calling for the sacking of Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, after her latest
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle In colloquial language, “Jesus wept” is a cry of exasperation when we encounter something either appalling or appallingly stupid. The leaders of the 18 states and territories comprising the Pacific Island Forum — including Australia and New Zealand — have done both by inviting Israel to be a second-tier sectoral partner
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific The international community has urged Samoa’s government to rectify the decline in press freedom in the country. Press freedom and media restrictions in Samoa came under scrutiny during Samoa’s periodic review at the United Nations Human Rights Review in Geneva this week. Ten countries raised concern about media restrictions
Palestine Chronicle staff reporters Israeli opposition leaders have called for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to leave office following the sweeping Democratic victories in the US midterm elections, warning that his continued leadership threatened Israel’s international standing and relations with Washington. Yair Golan, leader of the left-leaning Democrats party, said the results revealed “just how toxic
Asia Pacific Report A leading New Zealand advocacy group for Palestine has demanded immediate reinstatement of NZ funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the face of a humanitarian crisis for food, education and healthcare in Gaza. In a statement today, the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) said it
By Anish Chand in Suva Prominent Suva lawyer Richard Naidu says removing immunity provisions for coup perpetrators from Fiji’s Constitution may not necessarily result in prosecutions or legal action against those responsible for past coups. Naidu says much of the current debate surrounding constitutional immunity has been dominated by rhetoric rather than a realistic assessment
RNZ Pacific reporters A former Fiji ethno-nationalist coup leader who spent more than two decades in prison for treason and was pardoned in 2024 has become an Oceania powerlifting champion. George Speight, a highly polarising and disruptive figure in Fiji’s politics, won gold in the Men’s Masters IV 93kg weight class at the Oceanian Regional
By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Republican candidates have performed strongly in preliminary midterm election results in American territories, despite the expected anti-Trump swing on the mainland. Republicans have won back the governorship of Guam, with Vicente Ada beating out Democrat Therese Terlaje 51 percent to 48 percent. But they have lost their majority in