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July 17, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Mick Hall Collective measures to confront Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people have been agreed by 12 nations after an emergency summit of the Hague Group in Bogotá, Colombia. A joint statement today announced the six measures, which it said were geared to holding Israel to account for its crimes in Palestine and ... <a title="12 countries agree to confront Israel collectively over Gaza after Bogotá summit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/17/12-countries-agree-to-confront-israel-collectively-over-gaza-after-bogota-summit/" aria-label="Read more about 12 countries agree to confront Israel collectively over Gaza after Bogotá summit">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Forty years ago today, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship Rainbow Warrior in an attempt to stop the environmental organisation’s protest against nuclear testing at Moruroa Atoll in Mā’ohi Nui. People gathered on board Rainbow Warrior III to remember photographer Fernando Pereira, ... <a title="Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/17/rainbow-warrior-bombing-by-french-secret-agents-remembered-40-years-on/" aria-label="Read more about Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985 — less than two months before the bombing. Image: ©1985 David Robie/Eyes of Fire He accused the coalition government of being “too timid” and “afraid of offending President Donald Trump” to make a stand on the ... <a title="David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/david-robie-new-zealand-must-do-more-for-pacific-and-confront-nuclear-powers/" aria-label="Read more about David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
Occupied West Bank-based New Zealand journalist Cole Martin asks who are the peacemakers? BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin As a Kiwi journalist living in the occupied West Bank, I can list endless reasons why there is no peace in the “Holy Land”. I live in a refugee camp, alongside families who were expelled from their ... <a title="First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/first-hand-view-of-peacemaking-challenge-in-the-holy-land/" aria-label="Read more about First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist More than 400 candidates have put their hands up to contest the Bougainville general election in September, hoping to enter Parliament. Incumbent President Ishmael Toroama is among the 404 people lining up to win a seat. Bougainville is involved in the process of achieving independence from Papua New ... <a title="Bougainville election: More than 400 candidates vie for parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/bougainville-election-more-than-400-candidates-vie-for-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville election: More than 400 candidates vie for parliament">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior reporter The Fiji government looks set to pay around NZ$1.5 million in damages to the disgraced former head of the country’s anti-corruption agency FICAC. The state is offering Barbara Malimali an out-of-court settlement after her lawyer lodged a judicial review of her sacking in the High Court in Suva. ... <a title="Fiji govt offers NZ$1.5m settlement to former anti-corruption head for ruined career" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/fiji-govt-offers-nz1-5m-settlement-to-former-anti-corruption-head-for-ruined-career/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji govt offers NZ$1.5m settlement to former anti-corruption head for ruined career">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist New Zealand will not send top government representation to the Cook Islands for its 60th Constitution Day celebrations in three weeks’ time. Instead, Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro will represent Aotearoa in Rarotonga. On August 4, Cook Islands will mark 60 years of self-governance in free association with New Zealand. ... <a title="Luxon and Peters to miss Cook Islands’ 60th Constitution Day celebrations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/15/luxon-and-peters-to-miss-cook-islands-60th-constitution-day-celebrations/" aria-label="Read more about Luxon and Peters to miss Cook Islands’ 60th Constitution Day celebrations">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2025
BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied West Bank Two young Palestinians were shot and beaten to death on their land, and 30 injured, by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. A large group of settlers attacked the rural Palestinian village of Sinjil, in the Ramallah governorate, beating Sayfollah “Saif” Mussalet, 20, ... <a title="Israeli settlers shoot, beat to death 2 Palestinians in latest lynchings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/15/israeli-settlers-shoot-beat-to-death-2-palestinians-in-latest-lynchings/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli settlers shoot, beat to death 2 Palestinians in latest lynchings">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A journalist who was on the Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap last night condemned France for its “callous” attack of an environmental ship, saying “we haven’t forgotten, or forgiven this outrage”. David Robie, the author of Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior, said at the launch ... <a title="Author condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/14/author-condemns-callous-health-legacy-of-french-us-nuclear-bomb-tests-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Author condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests in Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2025
Asia Pacific Report In the new weekly political podcast, The Bradbury Group, last night presenter Martyn Bradbury talked with visiting Palestinian journalist Dr Yousef Aljamal. They assess the current situation in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and what New Zealand should be doing. As Bradbury, publisher of The Daily Blog, notes, “Fourth Estate public broadcasting ... <a title="The Bradbury Group features Palestinian journalist Yousef Aljamal, Middle East report and political panel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/14/the-bradbury-group-features-palestinian-journalist-yousef-aljamal-middle-east-report-and-political-panel/" aria-label="Read more about The Bradbury Group features Palestinian journalist Yousef Aljamal, Middle East report and political panel">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2025
RNZ News Nights Tomorrow marks 40 years since the bombing and sinking of the Rainbow Warrior — a moment that changed the course of New Zealand’s history and reshaped how we saw ourselves on the world stage. Two French agents planted two explosives on the ship, then just before midnight, explosions ripped through the hull ... <a title="Author David Robie tells of outrage over sinking of the Rainbow Warrior 40 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/14/author-david-robie-tells-of-outrage-over-sinking-of-the-rainbow-warrior-40-years-ago/" aria-label="Read more about Author David Robie tells of outrage over sinking of the Rainbow Warrior 40 years ago">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia’s pro-and-anti-independence parties have committed to an “historic” deal over the future political status of the French Pacific territory, which is set to become — for the first time — a “state” within the French realm. The 13-page agreement yesterday, officially entitled “Agreement Project of ... <a title="New Caledonia’s political parties commit to ‘historic’ statehood deal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/13/new-caledonias-political-parties-commit-to-historic-statehood-deal/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s political parties commit to ‘historic’ statehood deal">Read more</a>
