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Caitlin Johnstone: The Pope has died, and the Palestinian people have lost an important advocate

April 22, 2025

Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Pope Francis has died after using his Easter Sunday address to call for peace in Gaza. I don’t know who the cardinals will pick to replace him, but I do know with absolute certainty that there are transnational intelligence operations in the ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: The Pope has died, and the Palestinian people have lost an important advocate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/22/caitlin-johnstone-the-pope-has-died-and-the-palestinian-people-have-lost-an-important-advocate/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: The Pope has died, and the Palestinian people have lost an important advocate">Read more</a>

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Caitlin Johnstone: ‘I want a death that the world will hear’  –  journalist assassinated by Israel for telling the truth

April 20, 2025

Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Israel assassinated a photojournalist in Gaza in an airstrike targeting her family’s home on Wednesday, the day after it was announced that a documentary she appears in would premier in Cannes next month. Her name was Fatima Hassouna. Nine members of her ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: ‘I want a death that the world will hear’  –  journalist assassinated by Israel for telling the truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/caitlin-johnstone-i-want-a-death-that-the-world-will-hear-journalist-assassinated-by-israel-for-telling-the-truth/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: ‘I want a death that the world will hear’  –  journalist assassinated by Israel for telling the truth">Read more</a>

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Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen

April 20, 2025

By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed as “a saucy, sexy, funny look at a man with a nose for scandal and a weakness for women”. That would probably not fly these days — but as ... <a title="Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/mediawatch-jailed-australian-foreign-correspondents-life-spread-across-the-big-screen/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen">Read more</a>

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Palestinian solidarity vigil at Easter in NZ as Israeli bombing rages in Gaza

April 20, 2025

Asia Pacific Report Peaceful protesters in Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest city Auckland held an Easter prayer vigil honouring Palestinian political prisoners and the sacrifice of thousands of innocent lives as relentless Israeli bombing of displaced Gazans in tents killed at least 92 people in two days. Organisers of the rally for the 80th week since ... <a title="Palestinian solidarity vigil at Easter in NZ as Israeli bombing rages in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/palestinian-solidarity-vigil-at-easter-in-nz-as-israeli-bombing-rages-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinian solidarity vigil at Easter in NZ as Israeli bombing rages in Gaza">Read more</a>

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Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door

April 19, 2025

ANALYSIS: By Ben Bohane This week Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the murderous Khmer Rouge, and Vietnam celebrates the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces in April 1975. They are being commemorated very differently; after all, there’s nothing to celebrate in Cambodia. Its capital Phnom Penh was ... <a title="Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/19/did-australia-back-the-wrong-war-in-the-1960s-now-putins-russia-is-knocking-on-the-door/" aria-label="Read more about Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door">Read more</a>

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Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific

April 19, 2025

By Gujari Singh in Washington The Trump administration has issued a new executive order opening up vast swathes of protected ocean to commercial exploitation, including areas within the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. It allows commercial fishing in areas long considered off-limits due to their ecological significance — despite overwhelming scientific consensus that marine ... <a title="Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/19/trump-executive-orders-roll-back-ocean-fisheries-protections-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific">Read more</a>

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What was HMNZS Manawanui doing before it sank? Calls for greater transparency

April 18, 2025

By Susana Leiataua, RNZ National presenter There are calls for greater transparency about what the HMNZS Manawanui was doing before it sank in Samoa last October — including whether the New Zealand warship was performing specific security for King Charles and Queen Camilla. The Manawanui grounded on the reef off the south coast of Upolu ... <a title="What was HMNZS Manawanui doing before it sank? Calls for greater transparency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/18/what-was-hmnzs-manawanui-doing-before-it-sank-calls-for-greater-transparency/" aria-label="Read more about What was HMNZS Manawanui doing before it sank? Calls for greater transparency">Read more</a>

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Bad news – why Australia is losing a generation of journalists

April 17, 2025

Shrinking budgets and job insecurity means there are fewer opportunities for young journalists, and that’s bad news, especially in regional Australia, reports 360info ANALYSIS: By Jee Young Lee of the University of Canberra Australia risks losing a generation of young journalists, particularly in the regions where they face the closure of news outlets, job insecurity, ... <a title="Bad news – why Australia is losing a generation of journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/17/bad-news-why-australia-is-losing-a-generation-of-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Bad news – why Australia is losing a generation of journalists">Read more</a>

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Fiji defence minister draws flak for six-week trip to meet peacekeepers

April 17, 2025

RNZ Pacific Fiji’s Minister for Defence and Veteran Affairs is facing a backlash after announcing that he was undertaking a multi-country, six-week “official travel overseas” to visit Fijian peacekeepers in the Middle East. Pio Tikoduadua’s supporters say he should “disregard critics” for his commitment to Fijian peacekeepers, which “highlights a profound dedication to duty and ... <a title="Fiji defence minister draws flak for six-week trip to meet peacekeepers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/17/fiji-defence-minister-draws-flak-for-six-week-trip-to-meet-peacekeepers/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji defence minister draws flak for six-week trip to meet peacekeepers">Read more</a>

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NZ’s Palestine Forum calls on Luxon to take ‘firm stand’ over Israeli atrocities with temporary ban on visitors

April 16, 2025

Asia Pacific Report A Palestinian advocacy group has called on NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters to take a firm stand for international law and human rights by following the Maldives with a ban on visiting Israelis. Maher Nazzal, chair of the Palestine Forum of New Zealand, said in an open ... <a title="NZ’s Palestine Forum calls on Luxon to take ‘firm stand’ over Israeli atrocities with temporary ban on visitors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/16/nzs-palestine-forum-calls-on-luxon-to-take-firm-stand-over-israeli-atrocities-with-temporary-ban-on-visitors/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Palestine Forum calls on Luxon to take ‘firm stand’ over Israeli atrocities with temporary ban on visitors">Read more</a>

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Trump’s racist, corrupt agenda – like a bank robbery in broad daylight

April 16, 2025

EDITORIAL: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal US President Donald Trump and his team is pursuing a white man’s racist agenda that is corrupt at its core. Trump’s advisor Elon Musk, who often seems to be the actual president, is handing his companies multiple contracts as his team takes over or takes ... <a title="Trump’s racist, corrupt agenda – like a bank robbery in broad daylight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/16/trumps-racist-corrupt-agenda-like-a-bank-robbery-in-broad-daylight/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s racist, corrupt agenda – like a bank robbery in broad daylight">Read more</a>

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Caitlin Johnstone: Every day the Gaza holocaust continues, the empire tells the truth about itself

April 16, 2025

Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Every day the Gaza holocaust continues, the Western empire tells the truth about itself. The US government is telling you the truth about itself. Israel is telling you the truth about itself. Their Western allies are telling you the truth about themselves. ... <a title="Caitlin Johnstone: Every day the Gaza holocaust continues, the empire tells the truth about itself" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/16/caitlin-johnstone-every-day-the-gaza-holocaust-continues-the-empire-tells-the-truth-about-itself/" aria-label="Read more about Caitlin Johnstone: Every day the Gaza holocaust continues, the empire tells the truth about itself">Read more</a>