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January 13, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The US has carried out another air raid on Yemen, with targets reportedly including the international airport in the capital city of Sanaa. This comes a day after US and UK airstrikes on Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on Red Sea commercial vessels. For weeks Yemen’s Houthi forces have been ... <a title="Peace doesn’t come by trying to bludgeon the Middle East into accepting the Gaza genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/13/peace-doesnt-come-by-trying-to-bludgeon-the-middle-east-into-accepting-the-gaza-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Peace doesn’t come by trying to bludgeon the Middle East into accepting the Gaza genocide">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2024
Amnesty International is calling on Papua New Guinea authorities to protect human rights in response to the riots. Port Moresby is in a state of emergency for 14 days with at least 16 people confirmed dead following violent unrest on Wednesday. The violence broke out with shops and businesses being set alight after public servants ... <a title="‘Uphold right to life’ says watchdog in aftermath of deadly PNG unrest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/13/uphold-right-to-life-says-watchdog-in-aftermath-of-deadly-png-unrest/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Uphold right to life’ says watchdog in aftermath of deadly PNG unrest">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2024
Asia Pacific Report South Africa has accused Israel of “genocidal intent” over its war on the besieged enclave Gaza Strip, and pleaded with judges at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an interim order demanding Israel halt its military offensive in the embattled territory, reports Middle East Eye. South African lawyer Adila ... <a title="South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza ‘chilling’ in detail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/12/south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel-over-gaza-chilling-in-detail/" aria-label="Read more about South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza ‘chilling’ in detail">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2024
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent At least 10 people are dead and dozens injured after 24 hours of looting in Papua New Guinea, during which several buildings were torched. Chaos broke out in Port Moresby as looters and opportunists took advantage of a protest by the country’s police and military. People have been ... <a title="At least 10 dead after looting, fires on Port Moresby’s ‘darkest day’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/at-least-10-dead-after-looting-fires-on-port-moresbys-darkest-day/" aria-label="Read more about At least 10 dead after looting, fires on Port Moresby’s ‘darkest day’">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2024
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Shops have been set on fire or looted in parts of Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby as unrest broke out during a police and military strike. The protest over unexplained pay deductions to salaries of police, military, and correctional services has ... <a title="Looting breaks out in PNG capital during police and military strike" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/looting-breaks-out-in-png-capital-during-police-and-military-strike/" aria-label="Read more about Looting breaks out in PNG capital during police and military strike">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2024
By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Reporting Israel’s war on Gaza has become the greatest credibility challenge for journalists and media of our times. The latest assassination of an Al Jazeera photojournalist yesterday while documenting atrocities has prompted a leading analyst to appeal to global journalists to “take a stand” to protect the ... <a title="Journalists need to ‘take a stand’ over the Gaza carnage after latest killings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/09/journalists-need-to-take-a-stand-over-the-gaza-carnage-after-latest-killings/" aria-label="Read more about Journalists need to ‘take a stand’ over the Gaza carnage after latest killings">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ French Pacific correspondent A former New Caledonia-based High Commissioner, Patrice Faure, has been appointed Chief-of-Staff of French President Emmanuel Macron. Faure is described as an expert on French overseas territories, particularly New Caledonia. The 56-year-old prefect was France’s representative (High Commissioner) in New Caledonia between 2021 and 2023, a period marked ... <a title="Former New Caledonia-based envoy appointed French President’s chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/08/former-new-caledonia-based-envoy-appointed-french-presidents-chief/" aria-label="Read more about Former New Caledonia-based envoy appointed French President’s chief">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, has been killed along with another journalist in an Israeli air strike west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the news channel reports. The 27-year-old photojournalist was killed when a missile directly hit the vehicle he was travelling in ... <a title="Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief’s son one of two Palestinian journalists killed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/08/al-jazeera-gaza-bureau-chiefs-son-one-of-two-palestinian-journalists-killed/" aria-label="Read more about Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief’s son one of two Palestinian journalists killed">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
ANALYSIS: By M. Muhannad Ayyash, Mount Royal University American President Joe Biden is among the latest Western politicians to land in Tel Aviv in a show of support to Israel. As Israel’s primary backer, the United States has sent two aircraft carriers to the region and indicated it could deploy 2000 American troops to Israel. ... <a title="The West’s double standards are once again on display in Israel and Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/the-wests-double-standards-are-once-again-on-display-in-israel-and-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about The West’s double standards are once again on display in Israel and Palestine">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2023
Asia Pacific Report Protesters were out in force at 17 centres around Aotearoa New Zealand — from Rawene in the north to Invercargill in the south — this weekend calling for a “ceasefire now!” in the War on Gaza. “This is the largest number of centres ever taking action as New Zealanders express their abhorrence ... <a title="NZ pro-Palestine protesters slam ‘tea break’ and call for full Gaza ceasefire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/26/nz-pro-palestine-protesters-slam-tea-break-and-call-for-full-gaza-ceasefire/" aria-label="Read more about NZ pro-Palestine protesters slam ‘tea break’ and call for full Gaza ceasefire">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2023
REVIEW: By David Robie Just months before the outbreak of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza after the deadly assault on southern Israel by Hamas resistance fighters, Australian investigative journalist and researcher Antony Loewenstein published an extraordinarily timely book, The Palestine Laboratory. In it he warned that a worst-case scenario — “long feared but never ... <a title="Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from repression" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/25/behind-the-war-on-gaza-how-israel-profits-globally-from-repression/" aria-label="Read more about Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from repression">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Mouin Rabbani In the early hours of November 22, Qatar formally announced that an agreement had been reached for an Israeli-Palestinian exchange of captives — and it came into force today. The available details suggest it largely reflects the proposal offered by Hamas several weeks ago that was initially rejected by Israel. Тhe ... <a title="War on Gaza: Israeli failures, US charades and a negotiated truce" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/24/war-on-gaza-israeli-failures-us-charades-and-a-negotiated-truce/" aria-label="Read more about War on Gaza: Israeli failures, US charades and a negotiated truce">Read more</a>