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January 6, 2025
COMMENTARY: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report With the door now shut on 2024, many will heave a sigh of relief and hope for better things this year. Decolonisation issues involving the future of Kanaky New Caledonia and West Papua – and also in the Middle East with controversial United Nations votes by ... <a title="Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/06/five-pacific-region-geopolitical-betrayals-in-2024/" aria-label="Read more about Five Pacific region geopolitical ‘betrayals’ in 2024">Read more</a>
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January 6, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Paul Gregoire United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) provisional government interim president Benny Wenda has warned that since Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto took office in October, he has been proven right in having remarked, after the politician’s last February election, that his coming marks the return of “the ghost of Suharto” ... <a title="‘Ghost of Suharto’ marks Prabowo’s new phase in West Papua occupation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/06/ghost-of-suharto-marks-prabowos-new-phase-in-west-papua-occupation/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Ghost of Suharto’ marks Prabowo’s new phase in West Papua occupation">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2025
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor The fate of Palestinian Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, who was “arrested” by Israeli forces last month after defiantly staying with his patients when his hospital was being attacked, featured strongly at yesterday’s medical professionals solidarity rally in Auckland. The Israeli government bears full ... <a title="Abducted Gaza doctor’s life in danger due to torture – call for immediate international intervention" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/05/abducted-gaza-doctors-life-in-danger-due-to-torture-call-for-immediate-international-intervention/" aria-label="Read more about Abducted Gaza doctor’s life in danger due to torture – call for immediate international intervention">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2025
Navigating the shared challenges of climate change, geostrategic tensions, political upheaval, disaster recovery and decolonisation plus a 50th birthday party, reports a BenarNews contributor’s analysis. COMMENTARY: By Tess Newton Cain Vanuatu’s devastating earthquake and dramatic political developments in Tonga and New Caledonia at the end of 2024 set the tone for the coming year in ... <a title="Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set tone for coming year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/04/pacific-2025-vanuatu-quake-tongan-and-kanaky-shakeups-trump-questions-set-tone-for-coming-year/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific 2025: Vanuatu quake, Tongan and Kanaky shakeups, Trump questions set tone for coming year">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2025
By Maram Humaid in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Journalists gathered at Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital expressed outrage and confusion about the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) decision to shut down Al Jazeera’s office in the occupied West Bank. “Shutting down a major outlet like Al Jazeera is a crime against journalism,” said freelance journalist Ikhlas al-Qarnawi. “Al Jazeera ... <a title="‘Crime against journalism’: Gaza journalists slam PA’s Al Jazeera ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/03/crime-against-journalism-gaza-journalists-slam-pas-al-jazeera-ban/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Crime against journalism’: Gaza journalists slam PA’s Al Jazeera ban">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The New York-based global media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned a decision by the Palestinian Authority to suspend Al Jazeera’s operations in the West Bank and called for it to be reversed “immediately”. “Governments resort to censoring news outlets when they have something to hide,” said CPJ chief executive Jodie ... <a title="CPJ condemns ban on Al Jazeera – network decries bid to ‘hide the truth’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/02/cpj-condemns-ban-on-al-jazeera-network-decries-bid-to-hide-the-truth/" aria-label="Read more about CPJ condemns ban on Al Jazeera – network decries bid to ‘hide the truth’">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk An emergency 231 million euro (NZ$428 million) French aid package for New Caledonia has been reduced by one third because of the French Pacific territory’s current political crisis. The initial French package was endorsed in early December 2024, in an 11th-hour vote at the French National ... <a title="New Caledonia political crisis costs one third of multi-million French package" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/02/new-caledonia-political-crisis-costs-one-third-of-multi-million-french-package/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia political crisis costs one third of multi-million French package">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2024
Democracy Now! Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed that close to 46,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s ongoing assault, but Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah estimates the true number is closer to 300,000. “This is literally and mathematically a genocidal project,” says Dr Abu-Sittah, a British Palestinian reconstructive surgeon who worked in Gaza for more than a ... <a title="A ‘genocidal project’ – Dr Abu-Sittah on Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/31/a-genocidal-project-dr-abu-sittah-on-israels-destruction-of-gazas-health-system/" aria-label="Read more about A ‘genocidal project’ – Dr Abu-Sittah on Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health system">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A Palestine solidarity group has protested over the participation of Israeli tennis player Lina Glushko in New Zealand’s ASB Tennis Classic in Auckland this week, saying such competition raises serious concerns about the normalisation of systemic oppression and apartheid. The Palestine Forum of New Zealand said in a statement that by taking ... <a title="Palestine protest group condemns NZ’s ‘normalisation of apartheid’ over Israeli tennis player" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/30/palestine-protest-group-condemns-nzs-normalisation-of-apartheid-over-israeli-tennis-player/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine protest group condemns NZ’s ‘normalisation of apartheid’ over Israeli tennis player">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Overseas Minister Manuel Valls, who was appointed yesterday as part of the new French government of Prime Minister François Bayrou, intends to tackle New Caledonia’s numerous issues in the spirit of dialogue of former Socialist Prime Minister Michel Rocard. Rocard is credited as the main ... <a title="Valls hopes to tackle New Caledonia in Rocard-style ‘spirit of dialogue’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/30/valls-hopes-to-tackle-new-caledonia-in-rocard-style-spirit-of-dialogue/" aria-label="Read more about Valls hopes to tackle New Caledonia in Rocard-style ‘spirit of dialogue’">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2024
By Ella Stewart, (Ngāpuhi, Te Māhurehure, Ngāti Manu), RNZ longform journalist, Te Ao Māori On a sticky day in January, dozens of nannies and aunties from Tainui shook and waved fronds of greenery as they called manuhiri onto Tuurangawaewae Marae. More than 10,000 people had responded to a rare call for unity from the Māori ... <a title="Hui, protests, kotahitanga, and a new Kuini – a historic year for Māoridom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/29/hui-protests-kotahitanga-and-a-new-kuini-a-historic-year-for-maoridom/" aria-label="Read more about Hui, protests, kotahitanga, and a new Kuini – a historic year for Māoridom">Read more</a>
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December 27, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent, French Pacific desk New Caledonia’s territorial government has been toppled on Christmas Eve, due to a mass resignation within its ranks. Environment and Sustainable Development Minister Jérémie Katidjo-Monnier said he was resigning from the cabinet, with immediate effect. Katidjo-Monnier was the sole representative from Calédonie Ensemble (a moderately pro-France ... <a title="‘Block’ resignation over riots recovery plan topples New Caledonia’s government" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/27/block-resignation-over-riots-recovery-plan-topples-new-caledonias-government/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Block’ resignation over riots recovery plan topples New Caledonia’s government">Read more</a>
