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August 14, 2024
Environmental destruction is not an unintended side effect, but a primary objective in colonial wars of occupation. By David Whyte and Samira Homerang Saunders Many in the international community are finally coming to accept that the earth’s ecosystem can no longer bear the weight of military occupation. Most have reached this inevitable conclusion, clearly articulated in the ... <a title="From Papua to Gaza, military occupation leads to ‘ecocide’ – climate catastrophe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/from-papua-to-gaza-military-occupation-leads-to-ecocide-climate-catastrophe/" aria-label="Read more about From Papua to Gaza, military occupation leads to ‘ecocide’ – climate catastrophe">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
Israel’s zealots are ignoring the pleas of the top brass. They want to widen the circle of war, whatever the consequences. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook in Middle East Eye There should be nothing surprising about the revelation that troops at Sde Teiman, a detention camp set up by Israel in the wake of Hamas’s October ... <a title="Jonathan Cook: Israel is in a death spiral – who will it take down with it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/jonathan-cook-israel-is-in-a-death-spiral-who-will-it-take-down-with-it/" aria-label="Read more about Jonathan Cook: Israel is in a death spiral – who will it take down with it?">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The I-Kiribati people will go to the polls for the first round of voting today. Ballots are expected to open at 7am NZ time. The Kiribati Electoral Commission is responsible to conduct the election with the support of the Ministry for Culture and Internal Affairs. There is minimal ... <a title="Kiribati elections 2024 – what’s at stake in today’s vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/kiribati-elections-2024-whats-at-stake-in-todays-vote/" aria-label="Read more about Kiribati elections 2024 – what’s at stake in today’s vote">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
Pacific Media Watch A global media watchdog has expressed concern for the safety of an Al Jazeera reporter after false claims by the Israeli military. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said it was concerned for Anas al-Sharif, Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent in northern Gaza, after an Israel military spokesperson accused him of “presenting a ... <a title="Media watchdog says Al Jazeera paying ‘devastating price’ in warning on Gaza reporter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/media-watchdog-says-al-jazeera-paying-devastating-price-in-warning-on-gaza-reporter/" aria-label="Read more about Media watchdog says Al Jazeera paying ‘devastating price’ in warning on Gaza reporter">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The I-Kiribati people will go to the polls for the first round of voting tomorrow. Ballots are expected to open at 7am NZ time. The Kiribati Electoral Commission is responsible to conduct the election with the support of the Ministry for Culture and Internal Affairs. There is minimal ... <a title="Kiribati elections 2024 – what’s at stake in Wednesday’s vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/kiribati-elections-2024-whats-at-stake-in-wednesdays-vote/" aria-label="Read more about Kiribati elections 2024 – what’s at stake in Wednesday’s vote">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
By Lice Movono and Stephen Dziedzic of ABC Pacific Beat Fiji’s Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, says he will “apologise” to fellow Melanesian leaders later this month after failing to secure agreement from Indonesia to visit its restive West Papua province. At last year’s Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders meeting in Cook Islands, the Melanesian Spearhead ... <a title="Fiji’s Rabuka ‘will apologise’ to Melanesian leaders over failure to visit West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/fijis-rabuka-will-apologise-to-melanesian-leaders-over-failure-to-visit-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s Rabuka ‘will apologise’ to Melanesian leaders over failure to visit West Papua">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2024
By Dominique Meehan, Queensland University of Technology In the expansive landscape of Pacific journalism, one magazine stands for unwavering command and unfiltered truth. Islands Business, with its roots deep beneath Fijian soil, is unafraid to be a voice for the Pacific in delivering forward-thinking analysis of current issues. Established in Fiji’s capital, Suva, Islands Business ... <a title="Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/12/islands-business-big-picture-style-journalism-is-the-future-for-media/" aria-label="Read more about Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for media">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has told supporters that the “Break the Siege” aid project for besieged Gaza from Turkey has been put on hold — indefinitely — due to rising tensions in the wake of the assassinations of key resistance leaders in the capitals of Lebanon and Iran. “We will continue to ... <a title="Turkey-based Freedom Flotilla aid ships put ‘on hold’ but Handala still heads towards Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/12/turkey-based-freedom-flotilla-aid-ships-put-on-hold-but-handala-still-heads-towards-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Turkey-based Freedom Flotilla aid ships put ‘on hold’ but Handala still heads towards Gaza">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2024
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Pacific foreign ministers have given their nod of approval for United States territories Guam and American Samoa to be associate members of main regional decision-making body, but a political analyst says it is geopolitics at play. The news was delivered by Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) chair and Cook Islands ... <a title="Greenlight given to Guam, American Samoa for PIF associate membership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/12/greenlight-given-to-guam-american-samoa-for-pif-associate-membership/" aria-label="Read more about Greenlight given to Guam, American Samoa for PIF associate membership">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2024
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Suva The high-level Pacific mission to New Caledonia will be a three person-led delegation and it is still expected to happen prior to the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders (PIF) Meeting in Tonga on August 26, says PIF chair Mark Brown. Brown, who is also the Cook Islands Prime ... <a title="Brown, Rabuka and Manele to lead Pacific mission to New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/11/brown-rabuka-and-manele-to-lead-pacific-mission-to-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about Brown, Rabuka and Manele to lead Pacific mission to New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2024
By Victor Mambor in Jayapura and Pizaro Gozali Idrus in Jakarta Indonesian human rights groups have called for an independent investigation into the death of a New Zealand helicopter pilot in a remote part of Papua province earlier this week. The pilot, identified as Glen Malcolm Conning, was reportedly killed by an armed group shortly ... <a title="Indonesian human rights groups seek independent probe of NZ pilot’s death in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/09/indonesian-human-rights-groups-seek-independent-probe-of-nz-pilots-death-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian human rights groups seek independent probe of NZ pilot’s death in Papua">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor France has approved a high-level Pacific “fact-finding mission” to New Caledonia to gather information from all sides involved in the ongoing crisis. “We are welcoming a mission of the troika for a fact-finding mission in New Caledonia before the [Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting],” the French Ambassador to ... <a title="Macron gives Pacific mission to Kanaky New Caledonia green light, says diplomat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/09/macron-gives-pacific-mission-to-kanaky-new-caledonia-green-light-says-diplomat/" aria-label="Read more about Macron gives Pacific mission to Kanaky New Caledonia green light, says diplomat">Read more</a>
