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July 24, 2025
By Jamie Tahana in The Hague for RNZ Pacific The United Nations’ highest court has found that countries can be held legally responsible for their greenhouse gas emissions, in a ruling highly anticipated by Pacific countries long frustrated with the pace of global action to address climate change. In a landmark opinion delivered yesterday in ... <a title="UN’s highest court finds countries can be held legally responsible for emissions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/24/uns-highest-court-finds-countries-can-be-held-legally-responsible-for-emissions/" aria-label="Read more about UN’s highest court finds countries can be held legally responsible for emissions">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
OPEN QUESTION: By Bryan Bruce Dear Rt Hon Winston Peters, There was a time when New Zealanders stood up for what was morally right. There are memorials around our country for those who died fighting fascism, we wrote parts of the UN Charter of Human Rights, we took an anti-nuclear stance in 1984, and three ... <a title="Gaza – an open question for NZ’s foreign minister Winston Peters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/gaza-an-open-question-for-nzs-foreign-minister-winston-peters/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza – an open question for NZ’s foreign minister Winston Peters">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A longtime Bougainville politician, Joe Lera, wants to see widespread changes in the way the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) is run. The Papua New Guinea region, which is seeking independence from Port Moresby, is holding elections in the first week of September. Seven candidates are running for president, ... <a title="Veteran Bougainville politician wants new approach to independence and development" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/veteran-bougainville-politician-wants-new-approach-to-independence-and-development/" aria-label="Read more about Veteran Bougainville politician wants new approach to independence and development">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Groups that have declined to join the government-sponsored “harmony accord” signed yesterday by some Muslim and Jewish groups, say that the proposed new council is “misaligned” with its aims. The signed accord was presented at Government House in Auckland. About 70 people attended, including representatives of the New Zealand Jewish Council, His ... <a title="Gaza not a religious issue – it’s a massive violation of international law, say accord critics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/gaza-not-a-religious-issue-its-a-massive-violation-of-international-law-say-accord-critics/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza not a religious issue – it’s a massive violation of international law, say accord critics">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
The Devonport Flagstaff About 200 people marched in Devonport last Saturday in support of Palestine. Pro-Palestine flags and placards were draped on the band rotunda at Windsor Reserve as speakers, including Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick and the people power manager of Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand Margaret Taylor, a Devonport local, encouraged the crowd ... <a title="Flying the flags for Palestine – NZ protesters take message to Devonport" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/flying-the-flags-for-palestine-nz-protesters-take-message-to-devonport/" aria-label="Read more about Flying the flags for Palestine – NZ protesters take message to Devonport">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2025
In a joint statement, more than two dozen Western countries, including New Zealand, have called for an immediate end to the war on Gaza. But the statement is merely empty rhetoric that declines to take any concrete action against Israel, and which Israel will duly ignore. AGAINST THE CURRENT: By Steven Cowan The New Zealand ... <a title="Gaza: Empty rhetoric from New Zealand and other Western countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/22/gaza-empty-rhetoric-from-new-zealand-and-other-western-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza: Empty rhetoric from New Zealand and other Western countries">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2025
By Anan Zaki, RNZ News business reporter Sky TV has agreed to fully acquire TV3 owner Discovery New Zealand for $1. Discovery NZ is a part of US media giant Warner Bros Discovery, and operates channel Three and online streaming platform ThreeNow. NZX-listed Sky said the deal would be completed on a cash-free, debt-free basis, ... <a title="Sky TV to buy channel Three owner Discovery NZ for $1" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/22/sky-tv-to-buy-channel-three-owner-discovery-nz-for-1/" aria-label="Read more about Sky TV to buy channel Three owner Discovery NZ for $1">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2025
RNZ News New Zealand has joined 24 other countries in calling for an end to the war in Gaza, and criticising what they call the inhumane killing of Palestinians. The countries — including Britain, France, Canada and Australia plus the European Union — also condemed the Israeli government’s aid delivery model in Gaza as “dangerous”. ... <a title="NZ and allies condemn ‘inhumane’, ‘horrifying’ killings in Gaza and ‘drip feeding’ of aid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/22/nz-and-allies-condemn-inhumane-horrifying-killings-in-gaza-and-drip-feeding-of-aid/" aria-label="Read more about NZ and allies condemn ‘inhumane’, ‘horrifying’ killings in Gaza and ‘drip feeding’ of aid">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Jane Kelsey, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau While public attention has been focused on the domestic fast-track consenting process for infrastructure and mining, Associate Minister of Finance David Seymour has been pushing through another fast-track process — this time for foreign investment in New Zealand. But it has had almost no public ... <a title="Why has a bill to relax NZ foreign investment rules had so little scrutiny?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/22/why-has-a-bill-to-relax-nz-foreign-investment-rules-had-so-little-scrutiny/" aria-label="Read more about Why has a bill to relax NZ foreign investment rules had so little scrutiny?">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2025
By Mary Afemata, of PMN News and RNZ Pacific Porirua City Council is set to create a memorial for more than 1800 former patients of the local hospital buried in unmarked graves. But Pacific leaders are asking to be “meaningfully involved” in the process, including incorporating prayer, language, and ceremonial practices. More than 50 people ... <a title="Pacific leaders demand respectful involvement in memorial for unmarked graves" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/21/pacific-leaders-demand-respectful-involvement-in-memorial-for-unmarked-graves/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leaders demand respectful involvement in memorial for unmarked graves">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist The Cook Islands’ outer islands, or Pa Enua, are emptying as people make the pilgrimage to Rarotonga for constitution celebrations. This year is particularly significant, August 4 marks 60 years of the Cook Islands being in free association with New Zealand. Cook Islands Secretary of Culture Emile Kairua said ... <a title="Cook Islanders flock from outer islands for 60th anniversary celebrations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/21/cook-islanders-flock-from-outer-islands-for-60th-anniversary-celebrations/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islanders flock from outer islands for 60th anniversary celebrations">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Palestinian supporters and protesters against the 21 months of Israeli genocide in Gaza marched after a rally in downtown Auckland today across the Viaduct to the Greenpeace environmental flagship Rainbow Warrior — and met a display of solidarity. Several people on board the campaign ship, which has been holding open days over ... <a title="Palestine solidarity rally greeted by Rainbow Warrior Gaza protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/20/palestine-solidarity-rally-greeted-by-rainbow-warrior-gaza-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine solidarity rally greeted by Rainbow Warrior Gaza protest">Read more</a>
