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April 10, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Fresh clashes in New Caledonia have erupted in the suburbs of Nouméa between security forces and pro-independence protesters who oppose a nickel pact offering French assistance to salvage the industry. The clashes, involving firearms, teargas and stone-throwing, went on for most of yesterday, blocking access roads ... <a title="Violent clashes in New Caledonia as tensions rise over nickel pact" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/10/violent-clashes-in-new-caledonia-as-tensions-rise-over-nickel-pact/" aria-label="Read more about Violent clashes in New Caledonia as tensions rise over nickel pact">Read more</a>
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April 10, 2024
SPECIAL REPORT: By Richard Naidu, editor of Islands Business South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been described as involving two competing narratives: one, about a displaced Palestinian people denied their right to self-determination, and the other, about the Jewish people who, having established an independent state in ... <a title="Fiji’s position over Israeli war on Gaza – international blunder or a domestic strategy?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/10/fijis-position-over-israeli-war-on-gaza-international-blunder-or-a-domestic-strategy/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s position over Israeli war on Gaza – international blunder or a domestic strategy?">Read more</a>
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April 10, 2024
RNZ News All of Newshub operations — part of New Zealand’s second largest television news network channel Three — are to be shut down and 250 people will lose their jobs. The shutdown includes the company’s website, Warner Bros Discovery announced today. The last 6pm news bulletin will air on July 5. Warner Bros Discovery ... <a title="NZ media: All Newshub operations to be shut down, 250 jobs to go" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/10/nz-media-all-newshub-operations-to-be-shut-down-250-jobs-to-go/" aria-label="Read more about NZ media: All Newshub operations to be shut down, 250 jobs to go">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The leader of a New Zealand solidarity group of Palestinian self-determination supporters has accused the country’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters of making a “bluff and bluster” speech at the United Nations that was misleading about inaction at home. National chair John Minto of the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) said in a ... <a title="PSNA’s Minto slams Peters over ‘bluster’ speech on Gaza at UN" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/09/psnas-minto-slams-peters-over-bluster-speech-on-gaza-at-un/" aria-label="Read more about PSNA’s Minto slams Peters over ‘bluster’ speech on Gaza at UN">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2024
RNZ News New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has told the United Nations the situation in Gaza is an “utter catastrophe” and criticised the Security Council for failing to act decisively. In a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York, Peters said Gaza was a “wasteland” and that New Zealand was “gravely ... <a title="NZ’s Peters criticises Security Council at UN, says Gaza ‘a wasteland’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/09/nzs-peters-criticises-security-council-at-un-says-gaza-a-wasteland/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Peters criticises Security Council at UN, says Gaza ‘a wasteland’">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
By Doddy Morris of the Vanuatu Daily Post It has been 60 years since Indonesia has been refused humanitarian agencies and international media access to enter West Papua, says a leading West Papuan leader and advocate. According to Benny Wenda, president of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), Indonesia is “comparable to North ... <a title="Wenda challenges Indonesia’s ‘Papua never colonised’ claim as false" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/wenda-challenges-indonesias-papua-never-colonised-claim-as-false/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda challenges Indonesia’s ‘Papua never colonised’ claim as false">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal, and RNZ Pacific correspondent Majuro Mayor Ladie Jack is raising the alarm about criminal behaviour involving Marshallese deported from the United States, saying the “impact of these deportees on our local community has been nothing short of devastating”. Marshallese deported from the United States have been convicted over ... <a title="Alarm raised over ‘wave of havoc’ by Marshallese deported from US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/alarm-raised-over-wave-of-havoc-by-marshallese-deported-from-us/" aria-label="Read more about Alarm raised over ‘wave of havoc’ by Marshallese deported from US">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Just a third of New Zealanders now say they trust the news. That is the major finding of Auckland University of Technology’s research centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD)’s fifth annual Trust in News in Aotearoa New Zealand report, reports RNZ News. Trust in news in general fell from 42 percent last ... <a title="New research report shows major drop in media trust in New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/new-research-report-shows-major-drop-in-media-trust-in-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about New research report shows major drop in media trust in New Zealand">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
The New Zealand government is bringing in immediate changes to the Accredited Employer Worker Visa, which it says will help protect migrants from exploitation and address unsustainable net migration. In 2023, a near-record 173,000 non-New Zealand citizens migrated to the country. The changes to the work visa scheme include introducing an English language requirement for ... <a title="NZ immigration work visa changes to target ‘unsustainable’ migration" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/nz-immigration-work-visa-changes-to-target-unsustainable-migration/" aria-label="Read more about NZ immigration work visa changes to target ‘unsustainable’ migration">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2024
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape has authorised a joint military and police operation in a decisive move to curb the escalating problem of illegal mining in the Porgera Valley. This action comes in response to the recent surge of unauthorised miners invading the Special Mining Lease (SML) area, posing significant risks ... <a title="PNG’s Marape orders military-police operation in Porgera over illegal mining" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/07/pngs-marape-orders-military-police-operation-in-porgera-over-illegal-mining/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Marape orders military-police operation in Porgera over illegal mining">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Nour Odeh, a Palestinian political analyst, has told Al Jazeera’s Inside Story that the US is more likely to move in the “right direction” when it comes to Israel if it feels pressure from its allies, reports Al Jazeera. “The more Washington feels pressure from its friends, that its policy on Israel ... <a title="More pressure from US allies could see change to ‘untenable policy’ on Gaza, says analyst" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/07/more-pressure-from-us-allies-could-see-change-to-untenable-policy-on-gaza-says-analyst/" aria-label="Read more about More pressure from US allies could see change to ‘untenable policy’ on Gaza, says analyst">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2024
The first votes of the 2024 Solomon Islands joint elections have been cast in Honiara on Friday. The Solomon Islands Electoral Commission (SIEC) said pre-polling has been facilitated for police officers and electoral officials who will be working during polling day on April 17. The pre-polling for working officials was held from 7am to 4pm ... <a title="Solomon Islands election 2024: Polling day workers cast early votes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/07/solomon-islands-election-2024-polling-day-workers-cast-early-votes/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands election 2024: Polling day workers cast early votes">Read more</a>
