CoveragePost
March 1, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson Look around this morning. America and Israel, nuclear-armed states have attacked Iran. Israel, which has never declared its nuclear stockpiles nor its borders, has spent 2.5 years committing genocide against Gaza, a trapped community with no significant defensive weapons. Israel has bombed six countries which are not at war with it. ... <a title="Marilyn Garson: Waking up to terror in this new world of impunity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/01/marilyn-garson-waking-up-to-terror-in-this-new-world-of-impunity/" aria-label="Read more about Marilyn Garson: Waking up to terror in this new world of impunity">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
March 1, 2026
Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in central Auckland Tamaki Makaurau today were highly critical of the erosion of New Zealand’s once proud nuclear-free and independent foreign policy. They also warned against being tied into a United States that is pivoting a hostile policy towards China, New Zealand’s major trading partner. Ironically, just ... <a title="NZ rally slams Five Eyes intelligence ties hours before US-Israel attack on Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/01/nz-rally-slams-five-eyes-intelligence-ties-hours-before-us-israel-attack-on-iran/" aria-label="Read more about NZ rally slams Five Eyes intelligence ties hours before US-Israel attack on Iran">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
February 28, 2026
OBITUARY: By Joel Paredes Having known the Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut, who died yesterday aged 69, for nearly half a century, I feel that looking at his photos — how he documented the events that unfurled during his lifetime — reveals his own lifelong search for himself. By documenting the rawest parts of human existence, ... <a title="Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut: An extraordinary sense of truth in an ailing society" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/28/filipino-photojournalist-alex-baluyut-an-extraordinary-sense-of-truth-in-an-ailing-society/" aria-label="Read more about Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut: An extraordinary sense of truth in an ailing society">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
February 28, 2026
Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan leader has accused the Indonesian government of lying over its operations and “masking” the military role of some civilian aircraft. Disputing an Indonesian government statement about reported that TPNPB fired upon an aircraft in Boven Digoel, killing both the pilot and copilot, United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) ... <a title="Papuan activist leader Wenda accuses Jakarta of ‘lying’ over shot down plane" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/28/papuan-activist-leader-wenda-accuses-jakarta-of-lying-over-shot-down-plane/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan activist leader Wenda accuses Jakarta of ‘lying’ over shot down plane">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
February 28, 2026
Asia Pacific Report “We warned you,” says Iran’s national security commission head after Israel-US missiles attacks on the capital Tehran and other cities. Al Jazeera reports comments from Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the national security commission of the Iranian Parliament. “We warned you!” he wrote on social media. “Now you have started down a ... <a title="‘We warned you,’ says Iran’s national security chief after Israel-US attacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/28/we-warned-you-says-irans-national-security-chief-after-israel-us-attacks/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We warned you,’ says Iran’s national security chief after Israel-US attacks">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
February 28, 2026
INTERVIEW: By Eugene Doyle This is a moment of great peril for the small Caribbean nation of Cuba. Nothing less than its sovereignty is on the line as the US drives its knee into the neck of 10 million Cubans by means of a crushing air and sea blockade and a set of secondary sanctions ... <a title="Cuban ambassador denounces US aggression and violations of international law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/28/cuban-ambassador-denounces-us-aggression-and-violations-of-international-law/" aria-label="Read more about Cuban ambassador denounces US aggression and violations of international law">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
February 28, 2026
Novara Media In a spectacular triumph, Britain’s Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton byelection in Greater Manchester. Local plumber Hannah Spencer has now become the party’s fifth MP — a historic victory for the ascendent Greens, who ran a campaign of national hope and international solidarity against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The byelection ... <a title="Local plumber Hannah Spencer beats both Reform and Labour to win UK byelection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/28/local-plumber-hannah-spencer-beats-both-reform-and-labour-to-win-uk-byelection/" aria-label="Read more about Local plumber Hannah Spencer beats both Reform and Labour to win UK byelection">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
February 27, 2026
Amnesty International Amnesty International has condemned Israeli authorities over unleashing a series of unlawful measures deliberately designed to dispossess Palestinians in the occupied West Bank — including East Jerusalem — and to make the annexation of the territory an irreversible reality. These decisions since December 2025 represent an unprecedented escalation – in scale and speed ... <a title="Amnesty slams global impunity fueling Israel’s illegal West Bank annexation measures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/27/amnesty-slams-global-impunity-fueling-israels-illegal-west-bank-annexation-measures/" aria-label="Read more about Amnesty slams global impunity fueling Israel’s illegal West Bank annexation measures">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
February 27, 2026
Did ex-president Rodrigo Duterte’s actions merit an ICC trial? Here is how the prosecution, the victims’ representatives, and the defence are presenting their cases during the pre-trial at the International Criminal Court. Report compiled by Rappler. By Jodesz Gavilan in Manila The confirmation of charges hearings at the International Criminal Court (ICC) kicked off on ... <a title="Duterte’s ICC pre-trial in The Hague: What prosecution, victims, defence say about the drug war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/27/dutertes-icc-pre-trial-in-the-hague-what-prosecution-victims-defence-say-about-the-drug-war/" aria-label="Read more about Duterte’s ICC pre-trial in The Hague: What prosecution, victims, defence say about the drug war">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
February 26, 2026
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A number of remand prisoners at Papua New Guinea’s Bomana Prison have been injured in a confrontation with Correctional Services officers. Port Moresby General Hospital has confirmed to local media that nine inmates were rushed to hospital, and that two are in a critical condition. Sources at the ... <a title="Inmates in critical condition after alleged attack by PNG corrections officers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/26/inmates-in-critical-condition-after-alleged-attack-by-png-corrections-officers/" aria-label="Read more about Inmates in critical condition after alleged attack by PNG corrections officers">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
February 26, 2026
By Christine Rovoi of PMN News The arrest and charging of British-Fijian publisher Charlie Charters has pushed Fiji’s anti-corruption watchdog into fresh controversy. Charters’ arrest by police last weekend has raised sharp questions about whistleblowers, due process, and political pressure in the Pacific island nation. The 57-year-old appeared in the Suva Magistrates’ Court on Monday ... <a title="Fiji critic’s whistleblower case escalates anti-corruption crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/26/fiji-critics-whistleblower-case-escalates-anti-corruption-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji critic’s whistleblower case escalates anti-corruption crisis">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
February 26, 2026
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Senators have endorsed a Constitutional amendment text regarding New Caledonia’s future political status. Two-hundred and fifteen senators (mostly an alliance between right and centre-right parties) voted in favour, and 41 voted against. The four-hour sitting was marked by a lengthy address by French Prime Minister ... <a title="French Senate vote endorses New Caledonia’s future status" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/26/french-senate-vote-endorses-new-caledonias-future-status/" aria-label="Read more about French Senate vote endorses New Caledonia’s future status">Read more</a>
