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August 2, 2024
RNZ News Media publisher NZME has come under fire for admitting it used artificial intelligence to create editorials that ran in the Weekend Herald and other publications, with a media commentator saying it “can only damage trust”. RNZ’s Mediawatch revealed late yesterday that NZME had used AI to write an editorial about “Who the All ... <a title="NZME cops criticism after using AI to write rugby editorial" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/nzme-cops-criticism-after-using-ai-to-write-rugby-editorial/" aria-label="Read more about NZME cops criticism after using AI to write rugby editorial">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud Israel’s assassination of the head of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, on yesterday is part of Tel Aviv’s overall desperate search for a wider conflict. It is a criminal act that reeks of desperation. Almost immediately after the start of the Gaza war on October 7, Israel hoped to ... <a title="Why Israel assassinated Haniyeh – desperation over Gaza failure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/01/why-israel-assassinated-haniyeh-desperation-over-gaza-failure/" aria-label="Read more about Why Israel assassinated Haniyeh – desperation over Gaza failure">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A Kanak great chief has announced his resignation from New Caledonia’s customary Senate. Hippolyte Sinewami Htamumu once presided over the 16-member traditional Senate of chiefs, which was set up as part of the implementation of the Nouméa Accord signed in 1998. Sinewami, in announcing his resignation, ... <a title="Kanak great chief resigns from New Caledonia’s customary Senate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/01/kanak-great-chief-resigns-from-new-caledonias-customary-senate/" aria-label="Read more about Kanak great chief resigns from New Caledonia’s customary Senate">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2024
Warning: This report discusses graphic details of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea. SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent The nauseating stench of dried blood hung in the air as we arrived in Karida village, a few kilometers outside of Tari in Papua New Guinea’s Hela province. Through the landcruiser window, I ... <a title="From bows and arrows to assault rifles: How the rules of PNG tribal wars have changed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/01/from-bows-and-arrows-to-assault-rifles-how-the-rules-of-png-tribal-wars-have-changed/" aria-label="Read more about From bows and arrows to assault rifles: How the rules of PNG tribal wars have changed">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2024
The Palestine Chronicle Ismail Haniyeh, a prominent Palestinian political leader and the head of Hamas’ political bureau, has been assassinated today in an Israeli airstrike on Tehran. Haniyeh was in the Iranian capital for the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Both Hamas and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard confirmed his death and announced ongoing investigations ... <a title="Assassinated – Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian refugee who became the political leader of Hamas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/31/assassinated-ismail-haniyeh-the-palestinian-refugee-who-became-the-political-leader-of-hamas/" aria-label="Read more about Assassinated – Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian refugee who became the political leader of Hamas">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific Journalist The Chief Administrator of the Federated States of Micronesia’s most remote island is calling on senators in the Congress to approve funds to build a major seawall. Solomon Lowson says Kapingamarangi Atoll, which has a population of about 500, has been battered by climate-related disasters for decades. “Without seawall, ... <a title="‘Hit by tidal wave’ – remote FSM atoll calls for seawall" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/31/hit-by-tidal-wave-remote-fsm-atoll-calls-for-seawall/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Hit by tidal wave’ – remote FSM atoll calls for seawall">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2024
By Stephen Wright in Kingston, Jamaica Vanuatu has taken a leading role in a bloc of nations fighting to keep marine environment protection on the main agenda of the UN organisation responsible for developing global regulations for seabed mining. The assembly of the Kingston-based International Seabed Authority is meeting this week with a packed programme, ... <a title="Vanuatu fights for marine protection at key UN deep-sea mining summit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/31/vanuatu-fights-for-marine-protection-at-key-un-deep-sea-mining-summit/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu fights for marine protection at key UN deep-sea mining summit">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2024
By Grace Tinetali-Fiavaai, RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea police have arrested five people in connection with the brutal attacks in Angoram district that left around 25 people dead last week. RNZ Pacific correspondent in PNG, Scott Waide, said the ringleaders who initiated the attacks in three remote villages in East Sepik have not yet ... <a title="Five arrested in connection with deadly Papua New Guinea massacre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/30/five-arrested-in-connection-with-deadly-papua-new-guinea-massacre/" aria-label="Read more about Five arrested in connection with deadly Papua New Guinea massacre">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2024
Forget a 10-month genocide in Gaza. Only when Israel can exploit the deaths of Syrians living under its military occupation are we supposed to start worrying about the ‘consequences’, writes Jonathan Cook.ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook BBC coverage of the attack on a football pitch in the Golan Heights last Saturday has been intentionally misleading. The ... <a title="More dead children. More BBC ‘news’ channelling Israeli propaganda as its own" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/30/more-dead-children-more-bbc-news-channelling-israeli-propaganda-as-its-own/" aria-label="Read more about More dead children. More BBC ‘news’ channelling Israeli propaganda as its own">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2024
The fifth report in a five-part series focused on the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women that took place in the Marshall Islands last week. SPECIAL REPORT: By Netani Rika in Majuro On a hastily-erected wall in the Marshall Islands International Conference Centre hang the names of dead women, victims of gender-based violence (GBV). At ... <a title="A Wall of Shame – but do Pacific Islanders even notice gender deaths?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/30/a-wall-of-shame-but-do-pacific-islanders-even-notice-gender-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about A Wall of Shame – but do Pacific Islanders even notice gender deaths?">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2024
Climate justice and gender equality cannot be achieved separately, a Pacific women’s conference heard this week. Marshall Islands President Dr Hilda Heine said the climate crisis faced in the region and the world would make gender equality more difficult to attain. “For example, we know that we cannot have gender equality without climate justice, and ... <a title="‘We can’t solve the climate crisis without gender equality’, says Heine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/29/we-cant-solve-the-climate-crisis-without-gender-equality-says-heine/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We can’t solve the climate crisis without gender equality’, says Heine">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2024
By David Robie Former New Zealand attorney-general David Parker spoke on day 295 of Israel’ genocidal war on Gaza in Auckland today, condemning the National-led government’s inaction over the ongoing crisis. Responding to the recent International Court of Justice’s landmark advisory ruling that Israel’s occupation of Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem — Occupied Palestine ... <a title="Labour’s Parker critical of weak NZ response to ICJ ruling against Israel over Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/28/labours-parker-critical-of-weak-nz-response-to-icj-ruling-against-israel-over-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Labour’s Parker critical of weak NZ response to ICJ ruling against Israel over Gaza">Read more</a>
