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July 17, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Mick Hall Collective measures to confront Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people have been agreed by 12 nations after an emergency summit of the Hague Group in Bogotá, Colombia. A joint statement today announced the six measures, which it said were geared to holding Israel to account for its crimes in Palestine and ... <a title="12 countries agree to confront Israel collectively over Gaza after Bogotá summit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/17/12-countries-agree-to-confront-israel-collectively-over-gaza-after-bogota-summit/" aria-label="Read more about 12 countries agree to confront Israel collectively over Gaza after Bogotá summit">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Forty years ago today, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship Rainbow Warrior in an attempt to stop the environmental organisation’s protest against nuclear testing at Moruroa Atoll in Mā’ohi Nui. People gathered on board Rainbow Warrior III to remember photographer Fernando Pereira, ... <a title="Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/17/rainbow-warrior-bombing-by-french-secret-agents-remembered-40-years-on/" aria-label="Read more about Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
Occupied West Bank-based New Zealand journalist Cole Martin asks who are the peacemakers? BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin As a Kiwi journalist living in the occupied West Bank, I can list endless reasons why there is no peace in the “Holy Land”. I live in a refugee camp, alongside families who were expelled from their ... <a title="First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/first-hand-view-of-peacemaking-challenge-in-the-holy-land/" aria-label="Read more about First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior reporter The Fiji government looks set to pay around NZ$1.5 million in damages to the disgraced former head of the country’s anti-corruption agency FICAC. The state is offering Barbara Malimali an out-of-court settlement after her lawyer lodged a judicial review of her sacking in the High Court in Suva. ... <a title="Fiji govt offers NZ$1.5m settlement to former anti-corruption head for ruined career" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/fiji-govt-offers-nz1-5m-settlement-to-former-anti-corruption-head-for-ruined-career/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji govt offers NZ$1.5m settlement to former anti-corruption head for ruined career">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – A journalist who was on the Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap last night condemned France for its “callous” attack of an environmental ship, saying “we haven’t forgotten, or forgiven this outrage”. David Robie, the author of Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the ... <a title="David Robie condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/14/david-robie-condemns-callous-health-legacy-of-french-us-nuclear-bomb-tests-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about David Robie condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests in Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2025
Asia Pacific Report In the new weekly political podcast, The Bradbury Group, last night presenter Martyn Bradbury talked with visiting Palestinian journalist Dr Yousef Aljamal. They assess the current situation in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and what New Zealand should be doing. As Bradbury, publisher of The Daily Blog, notes, “Fourth Estate public broadcasting ... <a title="The Bradbury Group features Palestinian journalist Yousef Aljamal, Middle East report and political panel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/14/the-bradbury-group-features-palestinian-journalist-yousef-aljamal-middle-east-report-and-political-panel/" aria-label="Read more about The Bradbury Group features Palestinian journalist Yousef Aljamal, Middle East report and political panel">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2025
RNZ News Nights Tomorrow marks 40 years since the bombing and sinking of the Rainbow Warrior — a moment that changed the course of New Zealand’s history and reshaped how we saw ourselves on the world stage. Two French agents planted two explosives on the ship, then just before midnight, explosions ripped through the hull ... <a title="Author David Robie tells of outrage over sinking of the Rainbow Warrior 40 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/14/author-david-robie-tells-of-outrage-over-sinking-of-the-rainbow-warrior-40-years-ago/" aria-label="Read more about Author David Robie tells of outrage over sinking of the Rainbow Warrior 40 years ago">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia’s pro-and-anti-independence parties have committed to an “historic” deal over the future political status of the French Pacific territory, which is set to become — for the first time — a “state” within the French realm. The 13-page agreement yesterday, officially entitled “Agreement Project of ... <a title="New Caledonia’s political parties commit to ‘historic’ statehood deal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/13/new-caledonias-political-parties-commit-to-historic-statehood-deal/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s political parties commit to ‘historic’ statehood deal">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2025
Asia Pacific Report An opposition Labour Party MP today paid tribute to the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) movement, saying it should inspire Aotearoa New Zealand to maintain its own independence, embrace a strong regionalism, and be a “voice for peace and demilitarisation”. But Phil Twyford, MP for Te Atatu and spokesperson on disarmament, ... <a title="Twyford praises NFIP lead, calls for inspired peace and regionalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/13/twyford-praises-nfip-lead-calls-for-inspired-peace-and-regionalism/" aria-label="Read more about Twyford praises NFIP lead, calls for inspired peace and regionalism">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2025
TVNZ 1News The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior has sailed into Auckland to mark the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior in 1985. Greenpeace’s vessel, which had been protesting nuclear testing in the Pacific, sank after French government agents planted explosives on its hull, killing Portuguese-Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira. Today, 40 years ... <a title="Dawn service held 40 years on from Rainbow Warrior bombing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/11/dawn-service-held-40-years-on-from-rainbow-warrior-bombing/" aria-label="Read more about Dawn service held 40 years on from Rainbow Warrior bombing">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A prominent academic has criticised the New Zealand coalition government for compromising the country’s traditional commitment to upholding an international rules-based order due to a “desire not to offend” the Trump administration. Professor Robert Patman, an inaugural sesquicentennial distinguished chair and a specialist in international relations at the University of Otago, has ... <a title="Academic slams NZ government over ‘compromised’ foreign policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/09/academic-slams-nz-government-over-compromised-foreign-policy/" aria-label="Read more about Academic slams NZ government over ‘compromised’ foreign policy">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Russel Norman today recalled New Zealand’s heyday as a Pacific nuclear free champion in the 1980s, and challenged the country to again become a leading voice for “peace and justice”, this time for the Palestinian people. He told the weekly Palestinian solidarity rally in Auckland’s central Te Komititanga ... <a title="Greenpeace chief recalls New Zealand’s nuclear free exploits, seeks ‘peace’ voice for Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/06/greenpeace-chief-recalls-new-zealands-nuclear-free-exploits-seeks-peace-voice-for-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Greenpeace chief recalls New Zealand’s nuclear free exploits, seeks ‘peace’ voice for Gaza">Read more</a>
