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August 5, 2024
EDITORIAL: By Fred Wesley, editor-in-chief of The Fiji Times Australian constitutional law expert Professor Anthony Regan believes Fiji’s Coalition government came into power “by the skin of its teeth”. In the face of that, he believes it is not an option to leave the 2013 Constitution “as it is!” Professor Regan spoke at the Fiji ... <a title="The Fiji Times: Democracy – ‘by the skin of its teeth’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/the-fiji-times-democracy-by-the-skin-of-its-teeth/" aria-label="Read more about The Fiji Times: Democracy – ‘by the skin of its teeth’">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Since the arrival of Zionism in Palestine, the impulse of the Palestinians has not been about violence or revenge. The impulse remains the return to normal and natural life, writes Ilan Pappé. ANALYSIS: By Ilan Pappé “When we revolt, it’s not for a particular culture. We ... <a title="Ilan Pappé: To end Gaza genocide, uproot the source of all violence – Zionism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/ilan-pappe-to-end-gaza-genocide-uproot-the-source-of-all-violence-zionism/" aria-label="Read more about Ilan Pappé: To end Gaza genocide, uproot the source of all violence – Zionism">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has told supporters that the “Break the Siege” aid project for besieged Gaza from Turkey has been put on hold — indefinitely — due to rising tensions in the wake of the assassinations of key resistance leaders in the capitals of Lebanon and Iran. “We will continue to ... <a title="Turkey-based Freedom Flotilla aid ships put ‘on hold’ but Handala still heads for Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/04/turkey-based-freedom-flotilla-aid-ships-put-on-hold-but-handala-still-heads-for-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Turkey-based Freedom Flotilla aid ships put ‘on hold’ but Handala still heads for Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian political leader and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, says Israel’s “gangster style assassination and extrajudicial executions” are designed to “inflame the whole region”, reports Al Jazeera. The killings of the Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah military commander Fuad ... <a title="Israel accused of being a ‘rogue state’ trying to destabilise Middle East" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/03/israel-accused-of-being-a-rogue-state-trying-to-destabilise-middle-east/" aria-label="Read more about Israel accused of being a ‘rogue state’ trying to destabilise Middle East">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2024
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: By Aubrey Belford of the OCCRP High in the forested mountains of Papua New Guinea’s Bougainville Island lies an abandoned, kilometer-wide crater cut deep into the earth. Formerly one of the world’s largest gold and copper mines, the open pit now serves as an unsightly monument to the environmental and social chaos that ... <a title="Lawsuit promises justice for Rio Tinto’s mining disaster in Bougainville – but some say it’s a cash grab" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/lawsuit-promises-justice-for-rio-tintos-mining-disaster-in-bougainville-but-some-say-its-a-cash-grab/" aria-label="Read more about Lawsuit promises justice for Rio Tinto’s mining disaster in Bougainville – but some say it’s a cash grab">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud Israel’s assassination of the head of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, on yesterday is part of Tel Aviv’s overall desperate search for a wider conflict. It is a criminal act that reeks of desperation. Almost immediately after the start of the Gaza war on October 7, Israel hoped to ... <a title="Why Israel assassinated Haniyeh – desperation over Gaza failure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/01/why-israel-assassinated-haniyeh-desperation-over-gaza-failure/" aria-label="Read more about Why Israel assassinated Haniyeh – desperation over Gaza failure">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A Kanak great chief has announced his resignation from New Caledonia’s customary Senate. Hippolyte Sinewami Htamumu once presided over the 16-member traditional Senate of chiefs, which was set up as part of the implementation of the Nouméa Accord signed in 1998. Sinewami, in announcing his resignation, ... <a title="Kanak great chief resigns from New Caledonia’s customary Senate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/01/kanak-great-chief-resigns-from-new-caledonias-customary-senate/" aria-label="Read more about Kanak great chief resigns from New Caledonia’s customary Senate">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Tuvalu has added its voice to the growing tide in the Pacific against deep sea mining, highlighting the momentum against this destructive industry, says Greenpeace. The Tuvalu government’s call for a precautionary pause on deep sea mining took place at the 29th session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Kingston, Jamaica. ... <a title="Tuvalu joins growing Pacific tide of opposition to deep sea mining" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/01/tuvalu-joins-growing-pacific-tide-of-opposition-to-deep-sea-mining/" aria-label="Read more about Tuvalu joins growing Pacific tide of opposition to deep sea mining">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2024
Warning: This report discusses graphic details of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea. SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent The nauseating stench of dried blood hung in the air as we arrived in Karida village, a few kilometers outside of Tari in Papua New Guinea’s Hela province. Through the landcruiser window, I ... <a title="From bows and arrows to assault rifles: How the rules of PNG tribal wars have changed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/01/from-bows-and-arrows-to-assault-rifles-how-the-rules-of-png-tribal-wars-have-changed/" aria-label="Read more about From bows and arrows to assault rifles: How the rules of PNG tribal wars have changed">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2024
Forget a 10-month genocide in Gaza. Only when Israel can exploit the deaths of Syrians living under its military occupation are we supposed to start worrying about the ‘consequences’, writes Jonathan Cook.ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook BBC coverage of the attack on a football pitch in the Golan Heights last Saturday has been intentionally misleading. The ... <a title="More dead children. More BBC ‘news’ channelling Israeli propaganda as its own" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/30/more-dead-children-more-bbc-news-channelling-israeli-propaganda-as-its-own/" aria-label="Read more about More dead children. More BBC ‘news’ channelling Israeli propaganda as its own">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2024
The fifth report in a five-part series focused on the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women that took place in the Marshall Islands last week. SPECIAL REPORT: By Netani Rika in Majuro On a hastily-erected wall in the Marshall Islands International Conference Centre hang the names of dead women, victims of gender-based violence (GBV). At ... <a title="A Wall of Shame – but do Pacific Islanders even notice gender deaths?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/30/a-wall-of-shame-but-do-pacific-islanders-even-notice-gender-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about A Wall of Shame – but do Pacific Islanders even notice gender deaths?">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2024
Climate justice and gender equality cannot be achieved separately, a Pacific women’s conference heard this week. Marshall Islands President Dr Hilda Heine said the climate crisis faced in the region and the world would make gender equality more difficult to attain. “For example, we know that we cannot have gender equality without climate justice, and ... <a title="‘We can’t solve the climate crisis without gender equality’, says Heine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/29/we-cant-solve-the-climate-crisis-without-gender-equality-says-heine/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We can’t solve the climate crisis without gender equality’, says Heine">Read more</a>
