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November 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto Israeli prison guards punish the prisoners “by breaking their thumbs” said a released detainee as lawyers speak out about torture, abuse, rape, starving and killings in a notorious underground Israeli prison facility where detainees are held without sunlight, brutalised. And nobody in New Zealand says a word. Scores of detainees from ... <a title="Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet NZ remains silent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/israeli-torture-abuse-of-palestinian-prisoners-death-penalty-law-yet-nz-remains-silent/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet NZ remains silent">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2025
Asia Pacific Report An Australian author whose award-winning book about Israel’s military and surveillance industry has swept the world is scathing about a controversial Gaza transit company. Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book about how Israel tests arms and surveillance technologies in the illegal occupation of Palestine, says the shadowy scheme carrying ... <a title="Australian author says shadow Gaza transit scheme company is operating ‘disaster capitalism’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/16/australian-author-says-shadow-gaza-transit-scheme-company-is-operating-disaster-capitalism/" aria-label="Read more about Australian author says shadow Gaza transit scheme company is operating ‘disaster capitalism’">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto While Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian children in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the news broke in Aotearoa New Zealand that our government had been advised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) in September to recognise a Palestinian ... <a title="New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/new-zealand-backing-israel-over-two-state-solution-shows-galling-weak-leadership/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
Bob Howarth6 November 1944-13 November 2025 OBITUARY: By Robert Luke Iroga, editor and publisher of Solomon Business Magazine In June 2000, I travelled to Port Moresby for a journalism training course that changed my life in ways I did not expect. The workshop was about new technology—how to send large photo files by email, something ... <a title="Tribute to Bob Howarth: He touched the Pacific in ways words can barely capture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/tribute-to-bob-howarth-he-touched-the-pacific-in-ways-words-can-barely-capture/" aria-label="Read more about Tribute to Bob Howarth: He touched the Pacific in ways words can barely capture">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Saige England I sat in a cafe listening to one man telling another how to get more out of his workers — “his team”, kind of the way people talked about workhorses until some of us read Black Beauty and learned that sentient creatures have feelings, both animals and people. I hope that ... <a title="Saige England: if we want to save the planet we need a massive game change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/14/saige-england-if-we-want-to-save-the-planet-we-need-a-massive-game-change/" aria-label="Read more about Saige England: if we want to save the planet we need a massive game change">Read more</a>
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November 13, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Timor-Leste Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão has paid tribute to the “courageous and determined” contribution of Australian journalist Robert Domm to the struggle of the Timorese people in gaining independence from Indonesia. He died last Friday. Domm was remembered for meeting in secret with the then Timorese resistance leader Gusmão in ... <a title="Timor-Leste’s Xanana Gusmão pays tribute to journalist Robert Domm over independence struggle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/13/timor-lestes-xanana-gusmao-pays-tribute-to-journalist-robert-domm-over-independence-struggle/" aria-label="Read more about Timor-Leste’s Xanana Gusmão pays tribute to journalist Robert Domm over independence struggle">Read more</a>
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November 13, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou’s first visit to New Caledonia is marked by marathon political talks and growing concerns about the French Pacific territory’s deteriorating economic situation. Moutchou arrived on Monday on a visit scheduled to last until tomorrow. With a backdrop of political uncertainty ... <a title="French Overseas Minister holds marathon political talks in New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/13/french-overseas-minister-holds-marathon-political-talks-in-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about French Overseas Minister holds marathon political talks in New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2025
Middle East Monitor Israeli soldiers have revealed that Palestinian civilians were killed inside Gaza in a free-for-all at the wish of army officers amid a collapse of legal and military norms during Tel Aviv’s two-year brutal war on the besieged enclave, reports Anadolu Ajensi. “If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” Daniel, the ... <a title="Israeli soldiers killed civilians, aid seekers in Gaza free-for-all ‘at wish of army officers’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/12/israeli-soldiers-killed-civilians-aid-seekers-in-gaza-free-for-all-at-wish-of-army-officers/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli soldiers killed civilians, aid seekers in Gaza free-for-all ‘at wish of army officers’">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2025
RNZ Pacific An Israeli minister touring the Pacific to discuss defence and cooperation says Fiji and Papua New Guinea are “great friends”. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel recently visited the two countries and RNZ Pacific spoke with her during a brief stop in Auckland. She said the main goal of her trip was to ... <a title="Israel thanks Fiji and PNG for opening Jerusalem embassies, UN support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/12/israel-thanks-fiji-and-png-for-opening-jerusalem-embassies-un-support/" aria-label="Read more about Israel thanks Fiji and PNG for opening Jerusalem embassies, UN support">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2025
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor, and Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Pacific nations are at the world’s biggest climate talks making the familiar plea to keep global warming under 1.5C to stay alive, as scientists say the world will now certainly surpass the limit — at least temporarily. At the opening of the ... <a title="COP30: Pacific nations call for world to act as 1.5C threshold nears" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/11/cop30-pacific-nations-call-for-world-to-act-as-1-5c-threshold-nears/" aria-label="Read more about COP30: Pacific nations call for world to act as 1.5C threshold nears">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Freedoms Committee of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate says the Israeli occupation forces have killed 44 Palestinian journalists inside displacement tents in the Gaza Strip. The committee said that these journalists were among 254 media workers who had been killed since the beginning of the Israeli assault on Gaza in October 2023 ... <a title="Israeli forces kill 44 journalists inside Gaza displacement tents, says report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/11/israeli-forces-kill-44-journalists-inside-gaza-displacement-tents-says-report/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli forces kill 44 journalists inside Gaza displacement tents, says report">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
Asia Pacific Report In an open letter released at the Belém Climate Summit, special envoys for strategic regions have expressed their support for the COP30 presidency and for all leaders committed to advancing climate crisis action. Former New Zealand prime minister Dame Jacinda Ardern, the “voice” for Oceania, was among the seven climate envoys signing ... <a title="Oceania ‘voice’ Jacinda Ardern in open letter climate crisis plea in Brazil" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/oceania-voice-jacinda-ardern-in-open-letter-climate-crisis-plea-in-brazil/" aria-label="Read more about Oceania ‘voice’ Jacinda Ardern in open letter climate crisis plea in Brazil">Read more</a>
