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January 18, 2026
Asia Pacific Report A pro-Palestian campaigner today accused the Israeli military forces of “once again trying to sanitise its” image in Aotearoa New Zealand, condemning a “shameful” visa programme enabling soldiers to holiday in this country. Leeann Wahanui-Peters branded the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) “more accurately as the Israeli Offence Force (IOF) because it is ... <a title="Israel accused over ‘shameful whitewashing’ bid to sanitise soldier holidays in NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/18/israel-accused-over-shameful-whitewashing-bid-to-sanitise-soldier-holidays-in-nz/" aria-label="Read more about Israel accused over ‘shameful whitewashing’ bid to sanitise soldier holidays in NZ">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2026
Team Zeteo The cost of telling the truth from inside a society that has become “completely genocidal” is very high, says Yuli Novak, executive director of the human rights watchdog B’Tselem. Novak, one of the most uncompromising dissident voices within Israel, speaks frankly in this latest episode of Zeteo’s Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman in ... <a title="Israeli society has ‘become completely genocidal’, says B’Tselem head" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/17/israeli-society-has-become-completely-genocidal-says-btselem-head/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli society has ‘become completely genocidal’, says B’Tselem head">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2026
Indonesia needs a fundamental shift in perspective: seeing Papuans not as a problem to be managed, but as equal partners and full subjects of their own destiny within the Republic, writes Laurens Ikinia. COMMENTARY: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta The island of Papua is a land of profound paradox. Beneath its ancient, cathedral-like forests and ... <a title="Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/papua-in-the-pacific-mirror-a-path-to-recognition-and-reconciliation/" aria-label="Read more about Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2026
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent Leaders in the Northern Marianas have warned that a deepening economic crisis in the US territory could begin to undermine civilian systems that support America’s long-term strategic presence in the Indo-Pacific. In joint letters sent to US President Donald Trump and Admiral Samuel Paparo, ... <a title="CNMI leaders warn economic slide could affect US strategic presence in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/12/cnmi-leaders-warn-economic-slide-could-affect-us-strategic-presence-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about CNMI leaders warn economic slide could affect US strategic presence in Pacific">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2026
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last week announced a Royal Commission into the Bondi Beach Attack and antisemitism. Andrew Brown weighs the evidence on Australia’s “antisemitism crisis” for Michael West Media. ANALYSIS: By Andrew Brown Australia is being told it faces an unprecedented wave of antisemitism — a crisis requiring extraordinary measures, including a Royal ... <a title="Australia’s ‘antisemitism crisis’ – examining what’s real and what isn’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/11/australias-antisemitism-crisis-examining-whats-real-and-what-isnt/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s ‘antisemitism crisis’ – examining what’s real and what isn’t">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2026
RNZ Pacific Sāmoa is set to become the third Pacific nation to have an embassy in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Polataivao Schmidt told a gathering of the Sāmoa branch of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem on Tuesday he had instructed the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to begin work on the opening of an office ... <a title="Sāmoa set to become third Pacific nation to open Jerusalem embassy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/11/samoa-set-to-become-third-pacific-nation-to-open-jerusalem-embassy/" aria-label="Read more about Sāmoa set to become third Pacific nation to open Jerusalem embassy">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2026
The Australian government remains silent on Israel banning 37 international aid organisations in Gaza, despite warnings from humanitarian groups. Stephanie Tran reports. By Stephanie Tran of Michael West Media Under new registration requirements introduced by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, NGOs have been required to submit lists of their Palestinian employees for ... <a title="NGOs warn of catastrophic impact in Gaza – Penny Wong doesn’t care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/10/ngos-warn-of-catastrophic-impact-in-gaza-penny-wong-doesnt-care/" aria-label="Read more about NGOs warn of catastrophic impact in Gaza – Penny Wong doesn’t care">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Ian Powell There is much to understand from the dramatic kidnapping — abduction is perhaps a better word — of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores last weekend by the United States armed forces, combined with the military attack on the country’s capital Caracas. This understanding is greatly helped by ... <a title="Ian Powell: The Nicolás Maduro kidnapping, US imperialist expansion and implications for New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/10/ian-powell-the-nicolas-maduro-kidnapping-us-imperialist-expansion-and-implications-for-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about Ian Powell: The Nicolás Maduro kidnapping, US imperialist expansion and implications for New Zealand">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2026
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally bowed to pressure from the Murdoch News Corp’s relentless media campaign and advocacy by political critics and victim’s families to announce a royal commission of inquiry into “antisemitism and social cohesion”. The commission advocates were seeking his political downfall over last month’s Bondi ... <a title="Albanese bows to relentless pressure for Bondi royal commission but scepticism remains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/10/albanese-bows-to-relentless-pressure-for-bondi-royal-commission-but-scepticism-remains/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese bows to relentless pressure for Bondi royal commission but scepticism remains">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2026
The path to Caracas — and potentially next to Colombia, Cuba and Greenland, other targets of Donald Trump’s colonial greed– was paved in Gaza, writes Jonathan Cook. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook For decades, the United States and Israel have stuck closely to their respective, scripted roles in the Middle East: the job of good cop ... <a title="Jonathan Cook: From Gaza to Venezuela, the US has been unmasked as the serial villain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/08/jonathan-cook-from-gaza-to-venezuela-the-us-has-been-unmasked-as-the-serial-villain/" aria-label="Read more about Jonathan Cook: From Gaza to Venezuela, the US has been unmasked as the serial villain">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2026
By Jake Johnson US President Donald Trump has claimed that Venezuela’s interim leadership will turn over to the United States as many as 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil to be sold at market price, part of a broader, unlawful administration effort to seize the South American nation’s natural resources. Trump, who authorised the illegal ... <a title="‘Straight-up piracy and extortion’: Trump says he will control money from sale of Venezuelan oil" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/08/straight-up-piracy-and-extortion-trump-says-he-will-control-money-from-sale-of-venezuelan-oil/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Straight-up piracy and extortion’: Trump says he will control money from sale of Venezuelan oil">Read more</a>
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January 7, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Malcolm Evans What have we become if to survive in our so-called “free world” we must turn a blind eye to cold-blooded genocide, must arm ourselves to oppose our major trading partner, must support a contrived war to defeat an adversary that no longer exists, (lest its new form otherwise achieves its potential) ... <a title="Malcolm Evans: What have we become that we accept such brigandry?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/07/malcolm-evans-what-have-we-become-that-we-accept-such-brigandry/" aria-label="Read more about Malcolm Evans: What have we become that we accept such brigandry?">Read more</a>
