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January 28, 2026
Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has asked for an urgent meeting with Police Commissioner Richard Chambers and is calling for “cohesive action” over escalating attacks by Israel supporters against Palestinians and human rights activists. The network said in a statement a rock had been hurled through the window of New Plymouth ... <a title="PSNA seeks urgent police talks after ‘rock through window’ attack on Palestine supporters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/28/psna-seeks-urgent-police-talks-after-rock-through-window-attack-on-palestine-supporters/" aria-label="Read more about PSNA seeks urgent police talks after ‘rock through window’ attack on Palestine supporters">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Chris Hedges The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorised by heavily armed American execution squads for decades. It would not come as ... <a title="Chris Hedges: We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/26/chris-hedges-we-sowed-the-wind-now-we-will-reap-the-whirlwind/" aria-label="Read more about Chris Hedges: We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2026
RNZ Pacific Samoan playwright, author and poet Papali’i Sia Figiel has died in prison, according to local media reports. Local media, citing sources at the country’s main correctional facility in Apia, are reporting that Papali’i, 58, was found dead in her prison cell on Monday. She was being held at Tanumalala Prison, awaiting her next ... <a title="Samoan playwright found dead in prison, local media report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/26/samoan-playwright-found-dead-in-prison-local-media-report/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan playwright found dead in prison, local media report">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Kalafi Moala, publisher of Talanoa ‘o Tonga As a journalist based in Tonga, I have chosen mostly to refrain from giving a view of US President Donald Trump, one way or another, as I thought that he would sooner or later get over his incredible childishness and tyrannical behavior, and start doing something ... <a title="Kalafi Moala: My view of tyrannical Trump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/26/kalafi-moala-my-view-of-tyrannical-trump/" aria-label="Read more about Kalafi Moala: My view of tyrannical Trump">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Jim Sanday The recent announcement by Fiji’s Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs that Fiji will consider contributing troops to a proposed international stabilisation force in Gaza imposes a responsibility on all of us to ask the hard questions before the decision is finalised by Cabinet. At the outset, let’s all be clear ... <a title="Gaza peacekeeping deployment – five clear questions Fiji cannot ignore" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/25/gaza-peacekeeping-deployment-five-clear-questions-fiji-cannot-ignore/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza peacekeeping deployment – five clear questions Fiji cannot ignore">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2026
Nearly five months after a joint statement by 29 MFC member states called on Israel to allow press immediate independent access to Gaza and to protect journalists on the ground, the complete ban on media access remains in force. The ban has persisted since the start of the war over two years ago, despite the ceasefire ... <a title="Israeli Supreme Court hearing on press access to Gaza looms – RSF and CPJ call for action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/25/israeli-supreme-court-hearing-on-press-access-to-gaza-looms-rsf-and-cpj-call-for-action/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli Supreme Court hearing on press access to Gaza looms – RSF and CPJ call for action">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Paul Gregoire Australia’s two federal combating antisemitism bills, the New South Wales laws providing the means to shutdown street protests and move on stationary public assemblies, along with the envoy’s plan to combat antisemitism and the Royal Commission into the same prejudice, have all been set in place following two ISIS-fuelled killers murdering ... <a title="Federal government’s crackdown on free speech affects all Australians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/23/federal-governments-crackdown-on-free-speech-affects-all-australians/" aria-label="Read more about Federal government’s crackdown on free speech affects all Australians">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2026
Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the guilty verdict against Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio whose case has been challenged since her arrest almost six years ago. Cumpio was found guilty today on a charge of “financing terrorism” in the Philippines, and now faces a sentence ... <a title="RSF condemns verdict in ‘fabricated’ case against Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/22/rsf-condemns-verdict-in-fabricated-case-against-filipino-journalist-frenchie-mae-cumpio/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns verdict in ‘fabricated’ case against Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Australia’s Labor government has successfully passed a “hate speech” bill that’s plainly aimed, at least in part, at suppressing pro-Palestine organizations as “hate groups”. Free speech advocates are sounding the alarm about the new laws, saying their extremely vague wording, lack of procedural fairness and low thresholds for implementation mean groups ... <a title="Australia’s frightening new ‘hate speech’ laws are clearly aimed at pro-Palestine groups" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/22/australias-frightening-new-hate-speech-laws-are-clearly-aimed-at-pro-palestine-groups/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s frightening new ‘hate speech’ laws are clearly aimed at pro-Palestine groups">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2026
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s support for resettling Palestinian children orphaned by Israel’s genocide in Gaza barely rates a mention, reports Towards Democracy. COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose At the beginning of last month, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stood in front of an estimated 600,000 supporters in Zócalo Square and reflected on the achievements of her first ... <a title="Jeremy Rose: Mexico – the revolution isn’t being televised" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/21/jeremy-rose-mexico-the-revolution-isnt-being-televised/" aria-label="Read more about Jeremy Rose: Mexico – the revolution isn’t being televised">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Donald Trump is a classic example of why you don’t let bullies prosper. “Trump is cutting the last threads of the tattered cloth of ‘the rules-based international order’ — the self-serving system that touted international law as long as it didn’t apply to the US and its allies. The Canadians, the ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Look where appeasing a bully has led the West – Greenland, and then?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/21/eugene-doyle-look-where-appeasing-a-bully-has-led-the-west-greenland-and-then/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Look where appeasing a bully has led the West – Greenland, and then?">Read more</a>
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January 19, 2026
After winning re-election in 2024, Donald Trump promised to be a dictator “on day one”. When it comes to press freedom, he has kept his word, extending the war on the press he launched while running for his first term with grave attacks on access to reliable information worldwide. Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which monitors ... <a title="One year into Trump’s second term – repressive US president on track to join world’s worst press freedom predators" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/19/one-year-into-trumps-second-term-repressive-us-president-on-track-to-join-worlds-worst-press-freedom-predators/" aria-label="Read more about One year into Trump’s second term – repressive US president on track to join world’s worst press freedom predators">Read more</a>
