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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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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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January 23, 2025
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Fiji’s Deputy Prime Minister Biman Prasad has told an international conference in Bangkok that some of the most severely debt-stressed countries are the island states of the Pacific. Dr Prasad, who is also a former economic professor, said the harshest impacts of global economic re-engineering are being felt ... <a title="‘Decolonise’ aid urgent call from Fiji’s Prasad to face Pacific climate crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/23/decolonise-aid-urgent-call-from-fijis-prasad-to-face-pacific-climate-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Decolonise’ aid urgent call from Fiji’s Prasad to face Pacific climate crisis">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Israeli forces have been ramping up operations in the occupied West Bank– mainly the Jenin refugee camp – to “distract” from the Gaza ceasefire deal, says political analyst Dr Mohamad Elmasry. The Qatari professor said the ceasefire was being viewed domestically as a “spectacular failure” for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The ceasefire ... <a title="Israel has ramped up West Bank raids to ‘distract’ from ceasefire, says analyst" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/23/israel-has-ramped-up-west-bank-raids-to-distract-from-ceasefire-says-analyst/" aria-label="Read more about Israel has ramped up West Bank raids to ‘distract’ from ceasefire, says analyst">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Saige England Celebration time. Some Palestinian prisoners have been released. A mother reunited with her daughter. A young mother reunited with her babies. Still in prison are people who never received a fair trial, people that independent inquirers say are wrongly imprisoned. Still in prison kids who cursed soldiers who walked into their ... <a title="Palestinians return home to Gaza ashes – if we want peace, face the truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/22/palestinians-return-home-to-gaza-ashes-if-we-want-peace-face-the-truth/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinians return home to Gaza ashes – if we want peace, face the truth">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson and Lilomaiava Maina Vai The Speaker of the House, Papali’i Li’o Taeu Masipau, decisively addressed a letter from FAST, which informed him of the removal of Fiame along with Deputy Prime Minister Tuala Tevaga Ponifasio, Leatinu’u Wayne Fong, Olo Fiti Vaai, Faualo Harry Schuster, and Toeolesulusulu Cedric Schuster from ... <a title="Samoa political update: Fiame prevails in leadership crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/22/samoa-political-update-fiame-prevails-in-leadership-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa political update: Fiame prevails in leadership crisis">Read more</a>
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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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January 22, 2025
After sitting on the back benches as an MP for five terms, Lee was given the ethnic communities, economic development, and media and communications portfolios after the coalition government won the 2023 election. Lee was demoted from Cabinet in April last year, with Luxon stripping her of the media and communications portfolio. On Sunday, he ... <a title="Ethnic community leaders slam Lee’s removal from diversity portfolio" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/22/ethnic-community-leaders-slam-lees-removal-from-diversity-portfolio/" aria-label="Read more about Ethnic community leaders slam Lee’s removal from diversity portfolio">Read more</a>
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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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January 21, 2025
By Leah Lowonbu in Port Vila Vanuatu’s only incumbent female parliamentarian has lost her seat in a snap election leaving only one woman candidate in contention after an unofficial vote count. The unofficial counting at polling locations indicated the majority of the 52 incumbent MPs have been reelected but also with some high profile departures. ... <a title="Vanuatu risks return to all-male parliament in snap election in spite of strong ‘ vot woman’ campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/21/vanuatu-risks-return-to-all-male-parliament-in-snap-election-in-spite-of-strong-vot-woman-campaign/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu risks return to all-male parliament in snap election in spite of strong ‘ vot woman’ campaign">Read more</a>
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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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January 20, 2025
By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The Australian government denies responsibility for asylum seekers detained in Nauru, following two decisions from the UN Human Rights Committee. The UNHRC recently published its decisions on two cases involving refugees who complained about their treatment at Nauru’s regional processing facility. The committee stated that Australia remained responsible ... <a title="Australia still claims ‘not responsible’ for detainees, after UN body rulings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/20/australia-still-claims-not-responsible-for-detainees-after-un-body-rulings/" aria-label="Read more about Australia still claims ‘not responsible’ for detainees, after UN body rulings">Read more</a>
