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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 3, 2025
By Talaia Mika of the Cook Islands News The Cook Islands will not pursue membership in the United Nations and the Commonwealth due to its inability to meet the criteria for UN membership and existing relationship with New Zealand, which fulfils Commonwealth membership requirements. Prime Minister Mark Brown has clarified that the Cook Islands is ... <a title="Cook Islands ‘not qualified’ for UN membership, says prime minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/03/cook-islands-not-qualified-for-un-membership-says-prime-minister/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands ‘not qualified’ for UN membership, says prime minister">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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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 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 26, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Five Palestinian journalists have been killed in a new Israeli strike near a hospital in central Gaza after four reporters were killed last week, reports Al Jazeera citing authorities and media in the besieged enclave. The journalists from the Al-Quds Today channel were covering events near al-Awda Hospital, located in the Nuseirat ... <a title="Five journalists killed by Israeli air strike near hospital – media watchdogs condemn killings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/26/five-journalists-killed-by-israeli-air-strike-near-hospital-media-watchdogs-condemn-killings/" aria-label="Read more about Five journalists killed by Israeli air strike near hospital – media watchdogs condemn killings">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2024
By Victor Barreiro Jr in Manila Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, bishop of Kalookan, has condemned the state of Israel on Christmas Eve for its relentless attacks on Gaza that have killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. “I can’t think of any other people in the world who live in darkness and are always in the ... <a title="Cardinal David slams Israel, says Jesus would have been born in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/26/cardinal-david-slams-israel-says-jesus-would-have-been-born-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Cardinal David slams Israel, says Jesus would have been born in Gaza">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2024
By Cheerieann Wilson in Suva Veteran journalist and editor Stanley Simpson has spoken about the enduring power of storytelling and its role in shaping Fiji’s identity. Reflecting on his journey at the launch of FijiNikua, a magazine launched by Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka on Christmas Eve, Simpson shared personal anecdotes of growing up in Savusavu, ... <a title="Publisher tells of storytelling and its role in shaping Fiji’s identity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/26/publisher-tells-of-storytelling-and-its-role-in-shaping-fijis-identity/" aria-label="Read more about Publisher tells of storytelling and its role in shaping Fiji’s identity">Read more</a>
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December 24, 2024
By Emma Andrews, Henare te Ua Māori journalism intern at RNZ News From being the headline to creating them, Moana Maniapoto has walked a rather rocky road of swinging between both sides of the media. Known for her award-winning current affairs show Te Ao with Moana on Whakaata Māori, and the 1990s cover of Black ... <a title="Moana Maniapoto on the sound of the 80s to world-class journalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/24/moana-maniapoto-on-the-sound-of-the-80s-to-world-class-journalism/" aria-label="Read more about Moana Maniapoto on the sound of the 80s to world-class journalism">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2024
By Emma Andrews, Henare te Ua Māori Journalism Intern at RNZ News The New Zealand fuel company Z Energy is swapping out street names for “correct” kupu on service stops around the country, with the help of local hapū. When Z took over 226 fuel sites from Shell in 2010, the easy solution was to ... <a title="NZ’s Z Energy renames stations with ‘correct’ kupu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/23/nzs-z-energy-renames-stations-with-correct-kupu/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Z Energy renames stations with ‘correct’ kupu">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2024
Asia Pacific Report “It looks like Hiroshima. It looks like Germany at the end of World War Two,” says an Israeli-American historian and professor of holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University about the horrifying reality of Gaza. Professor Omer Bartov, has described Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza as an “act of annihilation” of the ... <a title="Israeli-American historian describes attacks on Gaza as ‘war of annihilation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/22/israeli-american-historian-describes-attacks-on-gaza-as-war-of-annihilation/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli-American historian describes attacks on Gaza as ‘war of annihilation’">Read more</a>
