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February 11, 2026
RNZ Pacific The United States has designated two high-profile public office holders from Palau and the Marshall Islands for “significant corruption”, the US Department of State says. Palau’s Senate president Hokkons Baules has been designated “for his involvement in significant corruption on behalf of China-based actors,” while the former mayor of the Kili/Bikini/Ejit community in ... <a title="US designates two Micronesian leaders over corruption allegations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/11/us-designates-two-micronesian-leaders-over-corruption-allegations/" aria-label="Read more about US designates two Micronesian leaders over corruption allegations">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2026
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal / RNZ Pacific correspondent The death earlier this month of a 26-year veteran of the US Army from the Micronesian island of Kosrae, who was an ardent advocate for healthcare benefits for island veterans, highlights the ongoing lack of promised US healthcare support for those who served in ... <a title="Micronesia: Island US military veterans struggle to get healthcare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/31/micronesia-island-us-military-veterans-struggle-to-get-healthcare/" aria-label="Read more about Micronesia: Island US military veterans struggle to get healthcare">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2026
By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist From heavy visa bonds to suspended applications to straight-up travel bans, the United States has implemented or announced sweeping restrictions on Pacific travel in just the first two weeks of 2026. Confirmed on Thursday, Fiji is among a list of 75 countries for which the US will suspend the ... <a title="Bonds, blockings and bans – a massive new-year US shakeup for Pacific travel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/17/bonds-blockings-and-bans-a-massive-new-year-us-shakeup-for-pacific-travel/" aria-label="Read more about Bonds, blockings and bans – a massive new-year US shakeup for Pacific travel">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2025
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent A Marshall Islands lawmaker has called on Pacific legislatures to establish and strengthen their national human rights commissions to help address the region’s nuclear testing legacy. “Our people in the Marshall Islands carry voices of our lives that are shaped by this nuclear legacy,” ... <a title="Pacific lawmakers call for creation of human rights commissions to fight nuclear testing legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/pacific-lawmakers-call-for-creation-of-human-rights-commissions-to-fight-nuclear-testing-legacy/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific lawmakers call for creation of human rights commissions to fight nuclear testing legacy">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2025
RNZ Pacific Fire engulfed the Marshall Islands Nitijela (Parliament building) just after midnight on last night with firefighters risking their lives as they battled the blaze early today in a bid to save the complex. “Sometime around midnight or shortly after this morning, the Parliament building in Majuro caught fire, started burning,” RNZ Pacific’s correspondent ... <a title="‘All destroyed’: Fire engulfs Marshall Islands parliament complex" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/26/all-destroyed-fire-engulfs-marshall-islands-parliament-complex/" aria-label="Read more about ‘All destroyed’: Fire engulfs Marshall Islands parliament complex">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2025
REVIEW: By Jenny Nicholls Author David Robie left his cabin on the Rainbow Warrior three days before it was blown up by the Directorate General for External Security (DGSE), France’s foreign intelligence agency The ship was destroyed at Marsden Wharf on 10 July 1985 by two limpet mines attachedbelow the waterline. As New Zealand soon ... <a title="Eyes of Fire is an updated Rainbow Warrior classic and must read for activism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/19/eyes-of-fire-is-an-updated-rainbow-warrior-classic-and-must-read-for-activism/" aria-label="Read more about Eyes of Fire is an updated Rainbow Warrior classic and must read for activism">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Pacific affairs and media commentator Dr David Robie reflected on the 1985 Rainbow Warrior mission to Rongelap atoll to help US nuclear refugees and the bombing of the Greenpeace campaign ship by French secret agents in a kōrero hosted by the NZ Fabian Society. His analysis is that far from the sabotage ... <a title="France’s betrayal of Kanak hopes for independence, Rainbow Warrior, climate crisis and other issues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/11/frances-betrayal-of-kanak-hopes-for-independence-rainbow-warrior-climate-crisis-and-other-issues/" aria-label="Read more about France’s betrayal of Kanak hopes for independence, Rainbow Warrior, climate crisis and other issues">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2025
By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor/RNZ Pacific correspondent Leaders of the three Pacific nations with diplomatic ties to Taiwan are united in a message to the Pacific Islands Forum that the premier regional body must not allow non-member countries to dictate Forum policies — a reference to the China-Taiwan geopolitical debate. Marshall Islands President ... <a title="Marshall Islands president warns of threat to Pacific Islands Forum unity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/05/marshall-islands-president-warns-of-threat-to-pacific-islands-forum-unity/" aria-label="Read more about Marshall Islands president warns of threat to Pacific Islands Forum unity">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2025
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent United States immigration and deportation enforcement continues to ramp up, impacting on Marshallese and Micronesians in new and unprecedented ways. The Trump administration’s directive to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrest and deport massive numbers of potentially illegal aliens, including those with convictions from decades ... <a title="ICE deportation action lands Marshallese, Micronesians in Guantánamo ‘terror’ base" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/19/ice-deportation-action-lands-marshallese-micronesians-in-guantanamo-terror-base/" aria-label="Read more about ICE deportation action lands Marshallese, Micronesians in Guantánamo ‘terror’ base">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
Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985 — less than two months before the bombing. Image: ©1985 David Robie/Eyes of Fire He accused the coalition government of being “too timid” and “afraid of offending President Donald Trump” to make a stand on the ... <a title="David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/david-robie-new-zealand-must-do-more-for-pacific-and-confront-nuclear-powers/" aria-label="Read more about David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French secret agents in Auckland harbour on 10 July 1985 the ship had evacuated the entire population of 320 from Rongelap in the Marshall Islands. After conducting dozens of above-ground nuclear explosions, the US government had left the ... <a title="The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/07/the-rainbow-warrior-saga-part-2-nuclear-refugees-in-the-pacific-the-evacuation-of-rongelap/" aria-label="Read more about The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap">Read more</a>
