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A UN report details the ‘overwhelming’ scale of children killed in Gaza. It raises grave legal questions

June 29, 2026

ANALYSIS: By Shannon Bosch A recent United Nations report has detailed serious allegations of Israel deliberately targeting Palestinian children during the conflict since October 2023. The report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, which has been rejected by the Israeli government, documents harrowing

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Time to pull plug on power-hungry ‘bludger’ AI data centres, says CAFCA

June 29, 2026

Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) has warned that a planned AI data centre in Southland would consume up to 25 percent of New Zealand’s annual electricity output and push power prices higher for Kiwi consumers and businesses. CAFCA organiser Murray Horton said in a statement that

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Fiji military defends national role in society after 9% budget cut

June 29, 2026

RNZ Pacific Fiji’s military has hit out against budget cuts it copped last Friday. In a social media post, the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF), which has gained influence in law enforcement over the last year, issued an apparent warning to detractors to recognise the role they play in Fijian society. “The RFMF… genuinely

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Pro-French, pro-independence blocs remain in New Caledonia election

June 29, 2026

By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific The one-round provincial election held in New Caledonia yesterday has produced a few surprises, but essentially maintained the existing blocs between pro-independence and pro-France parties. In the Southern Province (New Caledonia’s most affluent and populated, including the capital Nouméa), provisional results show half the votes went to the “Strong

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Counting underway at polling stations in New Caledonia provincial elections

June 28, 2026

By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ, RNZ Pacific reporters Polling stations have now closed in New Caledonia, as electoral officials begin tallying votes in today’s provincial elections. The Sunday elections are the first to be held in the French territory for 7 years after the 2024 elections were abandoned following riots that left 14 dead, and

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Pakistan PM drops a ‘truth bomb’ on US about the Iranian missiles

June 28, 2026

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, one of the signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the US, has called out what he says are double standards and duplicity by those trying to wreck the peace deal. His short, memorable statement was largely ignored in the Western media

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Heavy security deployed as New Caledonia’s crucial elections begin

June 28, 2026

By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific Heavy security has been deployed in New Caledonia as crucial provincial elections are being held in the French Pacific territory today. Polling stations are open from 8am local time (9am NZ time) until 6pm tonight. This comes as heavy security has been deployed. It involves a total of some

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NZ anti-war protesters call for independent foreign policy and peaceful planet

June 27, 2026

COMMENTARY: By Liz Remmerswaal Up to 1000 people joined a March for Peace in Auckland last weekend to demand that Aotearoa New Zealand become a voice for peace rather than a complicit partner in US-led illegal wars. The march on June 20 was organised by a new group, Anti-War Aotearoa (AWA), and Greenpeace Aotearoa, and

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The reckoning – what the US-Iran MOU means in reality for Israel

June 27, 2026

Israel’s legitimacy has been catastrophically squandered. It can only begin to be rebuilt through justice for the Palestinian people, writes Lim Tean. ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean It is a peculiar kind of defeat — one dressed in the language of victory. Operation Epic Fury was sold to the world as a decisive strike to eliminate

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New Caledonia’s political parties make final pitch to voters before campaigning ends

June 27, 2026

By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific Campaigning in New Caledonia officially closed yesterday at midnight local time — two days ahead of election day tomorrow, June 28. The poll will renew the members of New Caledonia’s three provincial assemblies (Northern, Southern and the Loyalty Islands). In the following days and well into July, the poll

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Australian media ignores UN report on Israeli deliberate killing of children

June 27, 2026

By Stephanie Tran in Sydney The devastating United Nations report this week into the deliberate targeting and murder of Palestinian children by Israel is not very newsworthy in Australia apparently. On Tuesday, the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel released a harrowing report finding that Israel has deliberately targeted and