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May 21, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell Since last Thursday, intensified Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed more than 500 Palestinians, and a prolonged Israeli aid blockade has led to widespread starvation among the territory’s two million residents. Belatedly, Israel is letting in a token amount of food aid that UN Under-Secretary Tom Fletcher has called a ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: NZ’s silence over Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/gordon-campbell-nzs-silence-over-gaza-genocide-ethnic-cleansing/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: NZ’s silence over Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jeremy Rose Reading an NBC News report a couple of days ago about a Trump administration plan to relocate 1 million Gazans to Libya reminded me of a conversation between the legendary Warsaw Ghetto leader Marek Edelman and fellow fighter and survivor Simcha Rotem that took place more than quarter of a ... <a title="Starvation of Gaza – a distressing continuation of a decades-old plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/21/starvation-of-gaza-a-distressing-continuation-of-a-decades-old-plan/" aria-label="Read more about Starvation of Gaza – a distressing continuation of a decades-old plan">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
New Zealand has joined 22 other countries and the European Union in calling for Israel to allow a full resumption of aid into Gaza immediately. The partners also said Israel must enable the United Nations and humanitarian organisations to work independently and impartially “to save lives, reduce suffering, and maintain dignity.” Israel imposed a blockade ... <a title="NZ joins call for Israel to allow full resumption of aid to Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/nz-joins-call-for-israel-to-allow-full-resumption-of-aid-to-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about NZ joins call for Israel to allow full resumption of aid to Gaza">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the May 19, 2000, coup led by renegade businessman George Speight. The deposed Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, says Speight’s motive had less to do with indigenous rights and a lot more to do with power, greed, and access to the millions likely to accrue from Fiji’s mahogany plantation. On ... <a title="Speight’s Fiji coup had more to do with power, greed than iTaukei rights, says Chaudhry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/speights-fiji-coup-had-more-to-do-with-power-greed-than-itaukei-rights-says-chaudhry/" aria-label="Read more about Speight’s Fiji coup had more to do with power, greed than iTaukei rights, says Chaudhry">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Environmentalists in the Cook Islands have criticised former Prime Minister and Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) head Henry Puna for joining the board of a deep sea mining company. Puna, who finished his term as PIF secretary-general in May last year, played a pivotal part in the creation of multi-use ... <a title="Environmentalists question Henry Puna’s role in deep sea mining firm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/19/environmentalists-question-henry-punas-role-in-deep-sea-mining-firm/" aria-label="Read more about Environmentalists question Henry Puna’s role in deep sea mining firm">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2025
By Gill Bonnett, RNZ immigration reporter This story discusses graphic details of slavery, sexual abuse and violence Pacific children as young as six are being adopted overseas and being made to work as house slaves, suffering threats, beatings and rape. Kris Teikamata — a social worker at a community agency — spoke about the harrowing ... <a title="Pacific children as young as 6 adopted, made to work as house slaves" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/19/pacific-children-as-young-as-6-adopted-made-to-work-as-house-slaves/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific children as young as 6 adopted, made to work as house slaves">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Saige England in Christchurch “RNZ is failing in its duty to inform the public of an entirely preventable humanitarian catastrophe.” Tautoko to Jeremy Rose, Ramon Das and Eugene Doyle for this critique of a review of RNZ’s coverage of a genocide. Sadly, this highlights RNZ’s failure to report the genocide from the perspective ... <a title="Time for NZ media to ditch the propaganda and stand against genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/17/time-for-nz-media-to-ditch-the-propaganda-and-stand-against-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Time for NZ media to ditch the propaganda and stand against genocide">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2025
By Russel Norman The iconic Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior will return to Aotearoa this year to mark the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original campaign ship at Marsden Wharf in Auckland by French secret agents on 10 July 1985. The return to Aotearoa comes at a pivotal moment — when the fight to ... <a title="Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior to return for 40th anniversary of French bombing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/15/greenpeace-flagship-rainbow-warrior-to-return-for-40th-anniversary-of-french-bombing/" aria-label="Read more about Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior to return for 40th anniversary of French bombing">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor Stuck in a state of disbelief for months, journalist Coralie Cochin was one of many media personnel who inadvertently put their lives on the line as New Caledonia burned. “It was very shocking. I don’t know the word in English, you can’t believe what you’re seeing,” ... <a title="New Caledonia riots one year on: ‘Like the country was at war’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/13/new-caledonia-riots-one-year-on-like-the-country-was-at-war/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia riots one year on: ‘Like the country was at war’">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2025
By Andrew Mathieson New Caledonia has imposed a 50-year ban on deep-sea mining across its entire maritime zone in a rare and sweeping move that places the French Pacific territory among the most restricted exploration areas on the planet’s waters. The law blocks commercial exploration, prospecting and mining of mineral resources that sits within Kanaky ... <a title="Indigenous Kanaks support New Caledonia’s 50-year ban on seabed mining" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/13/indigenous-kanaks-support-new-caledonias-50-year-ban-on-seabed-mining/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous Kanaks support New Caledonia’s 50-year ban on seabed mining">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2025
By Devin Watkins of Vatican News Only four days have passed since his election to the papacy, and Pope Leo XIV has made it a point to hold an audience with the men and women who were in Rome to report on the death of Pope Francis, the conclave, and the first days of his ... <a title="Pope Leo XIV expresses solidarity for ‘persecuted’ journalists seeking truth, calls for their freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/13/pope-leo-xiv-expresses-solidarity-for-persecuted-journalists-seeking-truth-calls-for-their-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Pope Leo XIV expresses solidarity for ‘persecuted’ journalists seeking truth, calls for their freedom">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2025
Fresh, stringent security measures have been imposed in New Caledonia following aborted political talks last week and ahead of the first anniversary of the deadly riots that broke out on 13 May 2024, which resulted in 14 deaths and 2.2 billion euros (NZ$4.2 billion) in damages. On Sunday, the French High Commission in Nouméa announced ... <a title="France tightens security for riots anniversary after aborted New Caledonia political talks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/12/france-tightens-security-for-riots-anniversary-after-aborted-new-caledonia-political-talks/" aria-label="Read more about France tightens security for riots anniversary after aborted New Caledonia political talks">Read more</a>
