CoveragePost
March 8, 2026
Thousands of British anti-war demonstrators yesterday marched through central London, calling for an immediate halt to US and Israeli military operations against Iran and an end to arms sales to Israel, Anadolu Ajansi reports. According to the Manchester Evening News, the protest drew between 5000 and 6000 participants, based on estimates from the Metropolitan Police. ... <a title="Thousands of protesters in London demand end to US, Israeli war on Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/08/thousands-of-protesters-in-london-demand-end-to-us-israeli-war-on-iran/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands of protesters in London demand end to US, Israeli war on Iran">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 8, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Hana Saada In an era when images can circle the globe in seconds and newsrooms claim to uphold universal humanitarian principles; one might expect the killing of 165 schoolgirls inside a primary school to dominate international headlines. One would expect emergency debates, moral outrage, and relentless coverage. Yet in the southeastern Iranian city ... <a title="165 massacred schoolgirls in Iran – and the silence that exposes the West’s moral selectivity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/08/165-massacred-schoolgirls-in-iran-and-the-silence-that-exposes-the-wests-moral-selectivity/" aria-label="Read more about 165 massacred schoolgirls in Iran – and the silence that exposes the West’s moral selectivity">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 3, 2026
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle When I heard the terrible news that the Americans and Israelis had killed more than 165 children this week in an elementary school in Minab in Southern Iran it took me back to a wonderful day I spent in Isfahan in 2018. ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Minab school massacre – hands off the children of Iran, Donald Trump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/03/eugene-doyle-minab-school-massacre-hands-off-the-children-of-iran-donald-trump/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Minab school massacre – hands off the children of Iran, Donald Trump">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 2, 2026
By Mahmoud Aslan in Lamerd, southern Iran Dozens of teenage girls were attending their regular training sessions of volleyball, basketball, and gymnastics in the main sports hall in Lamerd, a city near the Persian coast, when a missile slammed into the building at 5pm on Saturday. Additional strikes hit two nearby residential areas and a ... <a title="After a sports hall in Iran was bombed, witnesses describe chaos and ‘continuous screaming’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/02/after-a-sports-hall-in-iran-was-bombed-witnesses-describe-chaos-and-continuous-screaming/" aria-label="Read more about After a sports hall in Iran was bombed, witnesses describe chaos and ‘continuous screaming’">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 29, 2023
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent A woman who was part of a group kidnapped in Papua New Guinea in February has spoken out after the kidnapping and reported rape of 17 schoolgirls in the same area of Southern Highlands earlier this month. Cathy Alex, the New ... <a title="‘We chose death over being raped’ – PNG kidnap survivor speaks out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/we-chose-death-over-being-raped-png-kidnap-survivor-speaks-out/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We chose death over being raped’ – PNG kidnap survivor speaks out">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 12, 2023
By Majeleen Yanei in Port Moresby Seventeen Papua New Guinean schoolgirls who were kidnapped, raped and held hostage by armed men in Bosavi, Hela, last Wednesday were released yesterday. The National’s source said they were released following a payment of 3300 kina (NZ$1500) and nine pigs as ransom to the gunmen. “The females were released ... <a title="PNG gunmen ‘kidnapped, raped’ 17 schoolgirls before freeing them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/png-gunmen-kidnapped-raped-17-schoolgirls-before-freeing-them/" aria-label="Read more about PNG gunmen ‘kidnapped, raped’ 17 schoolgirls before freeing them">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 12, 2023
Reports from Papua New Guinea say that 17 girls from a remote village have been held captive by a large group of armed men. The National reported this, according to an eyewitness, and the story has been corroborated by a government worker from Komo Hulia. The eyewitness said the men had been demanding $40,000 kina ... <a title="Armed gunmen kidnap 17 girls from remote PNG village – freed for ransom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/armed-gunmen-kidnap-17-girls-from-remote-png-village-freed-for-ransom/" aria-label="Read more about Armed gunmen kidnap 17 girls from remote PNG village – freed for ransom">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 1, 2021
RNZ News In just a few weeks the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated sharply as millions cope without desperately needed international aid, New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis says. Bellis is Al Jazeera’s senior producer in Afghanistan and reported on the turmoil in August as the Taliban took over the government and thousands of people tried ... <a title="Charlotte Bellis on Afghanistan: ‘It’s just life and death on so many levels’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/01/charlotte-bellis-on-afghanistan-its-just-life-and-death-on-so-many-levels/" aria-label="Read more about Charlotte Bellis on Afghanistan: ‘It’s just life and death on so many levels’">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
July 17, 2019
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Two school girls from East Java, Aeshnina Azzahra (alias Nina), 12, and Zahira Zade, 11, have sent hand-written protest letters to US President Donald Trump over the dumping of toxic plastic waste in Indonesia. The letters were sent through the US Consulate-General in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya, reports ... <a title="Indonesian schoolgirls tell Trump ‘take back your toxic rubbish’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/17/indonesian-schoolgirls-tell-trump-take-back-your-toxic-rubbish/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian schoolgirls tell Trump ‘take back your toxic rubbish’">Read more</a>
