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Ni-Vanuatu journalist Doddy Morris balances grief and duty in the aftermath of earthquake

January 26, 2025

By Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson For Doddy Morris, a journalist with the Vanuatu Daily Post, the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Vanuatu last month on December 17, 2024, was more than just a story — it was a personal tragedy. Amid the chaos, Morris learned his brother, an Anglican priest, had died. “My mom called me ... <a title="Ni-Vanuatu journalist Doddy Morris balances grief and duty in the aftermath of earthquake" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/26/ni-vanuatu-journalist-doddy-morris-balances-grief-and-duty-in-the-aftermath-of-earthquake/" aria-label="Read more about Ni-Vanuatu journalist Doddy Morris balances grief and duty in the aftermath of earthquake">Read more</a>

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News Corp lies to Australian Parliament in lobbying putsch to change media laws

January 26, 2025

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has misled the Australian Parliament and is liable to prosecution — not that government will lift a finger to enforce the law, reports Michael West Media. SPECIAL REPORT: By Michael West Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has misled the Australian Parliament. In a submission to the Senate, the company claimed, “Foxtel also ... <a title="News Corp lies to Australian Parliament in lobbying putsch to change media laws" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/26/news-corp-lies-to-australian-parliament-in-lobbying-putsch-to-change-media-laws/" aria-label="Read more about News Corp lies to Australian Parliament in lobbying putsch to change media laws">Read more</a>

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RNZ Pacific – 35 years of broadcasting trusted news to the region

January 25, 2025

By Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor, RNZ Pacific manager RNZ International (RNZI) began broadcasting to the Pacific region 35 years ago — on 24 January 1990, the same day the Auckland Commonwealth Games opened. Its news bulletins and programmes were carried by a brand new 100kW transmitter. The service was rebranded as RNZ Pacific in 2017. However its ... <a title="RNZ Pacific – 35 years of broadcasting trusted news to the region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/25/rnz-pacific-35-years-of-broadcasting-trusted-news-to-the-region/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ Pacific – 35 years of broadcasting trusted news to the region">Read more</a>

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Al Jazeera says correspondent’s arrest latest bid to gag Jenin coverage

January 24, 2025

Pacific Media Watch The Al Jazeera Network has condemned the arrest of its occupied West Bank correspondent by Palestinian security services as a bid by the Israeli occupation to “block media coverage” of the military attack on Jenin. Israeli soldiers have killed at least 12 Palestinians in the three-day military assault that has rendered the ... <a title="Al Jazeera says correspondent’s arrest latest bid to gag Jenin coverage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/24/al-jazeera-says-correspondents-arrest-latest-bid-to-gag-jenin-coverage/" aria-label="Read more about Al Jazeera says correspondent’s arrest latest bid to gag Jenin coverage">Read more</a>

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Northern Mariana Islands advocates hit back at Trump diversity directives

January 23, 2025

By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent Two LGBTQIA+ advocates in the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) are up in arms over US President Donald Trump’s executive order rolling back protections for transgender people and terminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the federal government. Pride Marianas founder Roberto Santos said Trump’s ... <a title="Northern Mariana Islands advocates hit back at Trump diversity directives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/23/northern-mariana-islands-advocates-hit-back-at-trump-diversity-directives/" aria-label="Read more about Northern Mariana Islands advocates hit back at Trump diversity directives">Read more</a>

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Standing for decency: The sermon the President didn’t want to hear

January 23, 2025

COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel People get readyThere’s a train a-comingYou don’t need no baggageYou just get on boardAll you need is faithTo hear the diesels hummingDon’t need no ticketYou just thank the Lord Songwriter: Curtis Mayfield You might have seen Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s speech at the National Prayer Service in the United States following ... <a title="Standing for decency: The sermon the President didn’t want to hear" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/23/standing-for-decency-the-sermon-the-president-didnt-want-to-hear/" aria-label="Read more about Standing for decency: The sermon the President didn’t want to hear">Read more</a>

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Climate crisis: The carbon footprint of the Gaza genocide

January 23, 2025

SPECIAL REPORT: By Jeremy Rose The International Court of Justice heard last month that after reconstruction is factored in Israel’s war on Gaza will have emitted 52 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. A figure equivalent to the annual emissions of 126 states and territories. It seems somehow wrong to be writing ... <a title="Climate crisis: The carbon footprint of the Gaza genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/23/climate-crisis-the-carbon-footprint-of-the-gaza-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Climate crisis: The carbon footprint of the Gaza genocide">Read more</a>

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Gaza and the Western media – complicit in genocide

January 22, 2025

COMMENTARY: By Steven Cowan, editor of Against The Current New Zealand’s One News interviewed a Gaza journalist last week who has called out the Western media for its complicity in genocide. For some 15 months, the Western media have framed Israel’s genocidal rampage in Gaza as a “legitimate” war. Pretending to provide an objective and ... <a title="Gaza and the Western media – complicit in genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/22/gaza-and-the-western-media-complicit-in-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza and the Western media – complicit in genocide">Read more</a>

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Marwan Barghouti – the world’s most important hostage – must be freed

January 21, 2025

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle A litmus test of Israel’s commitment to abandon genocide and start down the road towards lasting peace is whether they choose to release the most important of all the hostages, Marwan Barghouti. During the past 22 years in Israeli prisons he has been beaten, tortured, sexually molested and had limbs broken. ... <a title="Marwan Barghouti – the world’s most important hostage – must be freed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/marwan-barghouti-the-worlds-most-important-hostage-must-be-freed/" aria-label="Read more about Marwan Barghouti – the world’s most important hostage – must be freed">Read more</a>

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Gaza ceasefire: RSF calls for open borders for journalists – end to impunity for Israel’s war crimes

January 21, 2025

Al Jazeera journalist Fadi al-Wahidi, who was gravely injured on 9 October 2024 while reporting from the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, is fighting for his life as the Israeli authorities continued to refuse his transfer to a hospital abroad, despite repeated calls from RSF. Also, two Palestinian photojournalists, Haytham Abdel Wahed and Nidal ... <a title="Gaza ceasefire: RSF calls for open borders for journalists – end to impunity for Israel’s war crimes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/gaza-ceasefire-rsf-calls-for-open-borders-for-journalists-end-to-impunity-for-israels-war-crimes/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza ceasefire: RSF calls for open borders for journalists – end to impunity for Israel’s war crimes">Read more</a>

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Netanyahu’s war on Hamas backfires as Gaza resistance holds strong

January 20, 2025

An Al-Jazeera Arabic special report translated by The Palestine Chronicle staff details how Israel’s military strategy in Gaza, aimed at dismantling Hamas and displacing Palestinian civilians, has failed after 470 days of conflict. ANALYSIS: By Abdulwahab al-Mursi On May 5, 2024, nearly seven months into Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ... <a title="Netanyahu’s war on Hamas backfires as Gaza resistance holds strong" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/20/netanyahus-war-on-hamas-backfires-as-gaza-resistance-holds-strong/" aria-label="Read more about Netanyahu’s war on Hamas backfires as Gaza resistance holds strong">Read more</a>

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John Minto: A triumph of the human spirit

January 19, 2025

LETTER: By John Minto With the temporary ceasefire agreement, we should take our hats off to the Palestinian people of Gaza who have withstood a total military onslaught from Israel but without surrendering or shifting from their land. Over 15 months Israel has dropped well over 70,000 tonnes of bombs on this tiny 360 sq ... <a title="John Minto: A triumph of the human spirit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/19/john-minto-a-triumph-of-the-human-spirit/" aria-label="Read more about John Minto: A triumph of the human spirit">Read more</a>