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October 23, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Christchurch, New Zealand’s third-largest city, today became the first local government in the country to sanction Israel by voting to halt business with organisations involved in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. It passed a resolution to amend its procurement policy to exclude companies building and maintaining illegal Israeli settlements on ... <a title="NZ’s third-largest city sanctions Israel over illegal Palestine settlements" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/23/nzs-third-largest-city-sanctions-israel-over-illegal-palestine-settlements/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s third-largest city sanctions Israel over illegal Palestine settlements">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2024
By Efe Özkan Pro-Palestinian anti-war activists in Australia have protested in Melbourne, disrupting a defence expo set to open on Wednesday. Protesters gathered yesterday in front of companies connected to weapons manufacturing across Melbourne as police were called to prevent an escalation of the events, according to 7News Melbourne. Many police cars and units were ... <a title="Pro-Palestinian activists hold protests to disrupt defence expo in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/18/pro-palestinian-activists-hold-protests-to-disrupt-defence-expo-in-australia/" aria-label="Read more about Pro-Palestinian activists hold protests to disrupt defence expo in Australia">Read more</a>
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September 9, 2024
By Efe Özkan Pro-Palestinian anti-war activists in Australia have protested in Melbourne, disrupting a defence expo set to open on Wednesday. Protesters gathered yesterday in front of companies connected to weapons manufacturing across Melbourne as police were called to prevent an escalation of the events, according to 7News Melbourne. Many police cars and units were ... <a title="Pro-Palestinian activists hold protests to disrupt defense expo in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/09/pro-palestinian-activists-hold-protests-to-disrupt-defense-expo-in-australia/" aria-label="Read more about Pro-Palestinian activists hold protests to disrupt defense expo in Australia">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2024
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) has signed onto the following letter urging respect for the electoral process underway in Venezuela and opposing outside interference. July 27, 2024 On July 28, millions of Venezuelans will go to the polls to choose between ten presidential candidates, including incumbent Nicolás ... <a title="Beware of Attempts to Discredit Venezuela’s Election and Launch Regime Change: A Letter from Organizations in the US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/29/beware-of-attempts-to-discredit-venezuelas-election-and-launch-regime-change-a-letter-from-organizations-in-the-us/" aria-label="Read more about Beware of Attempts to Discredit Venezuela’s Election and Launch Regime Change: A Letter from Organizations in the US">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2024
COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs The New Zealand government remains disturbingly quiet on the unfolding genocide in Gaza. New Zealand’s silence is clearly undermining its self-image as a principled and independent state within the United Nations. It is following its Anglosphere English-speaking partners (United States, UK, Canada, and Australia) in avoiding putting in place any sanctions ... <a title="Why is NZ being so obstinate over its weak position on Gaza and Palestine? " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/15/why-is-nz-being-so-obstinate-over-its-weak-position-on-gaza-and-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Why is NZ being so obstinate over its weak position on Gaza and Palestine? ">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2024
Asia Pacific Report From France to Australia, university pro-Palestine protests in the United States have now spread to several countries with students pitching on-campus camps. And students at Columbia and other US universities remain defiant as campuses have witnessed the biggest protests since the anti-Vietnam war and anti-apartheid eras in the 1960s and 1980s. But ... <a title="US student Palestine protests against Israel’s war on Gaza inspire global action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/27/us-student-palestine-protests-against-israels-war-on-gaza-inspire-global-action/" aria-label="Read more about US student Palestine protests against Israel’s war on Gaza inspire global action">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Analysis and Opinion by Tim Beal. This article was first published on Pearls and Irritations (ref. https://johnmenadue.com/new-zealand-nearly-sanctions-the-united-nations/ ) The Bank of New Zealand blocks a donation to UNRWA, then thinks again. Like many people I have been horrified by Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians. I have made modest donations to UNICEF, partly to help ... <a title="Tim Beal Analysis – BNZ and Palestine – New Zealand nearly sanctions the United Nations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/tim-beal-analysis-bnz-and-palestine-new-zealand-nearly-sanctions-the-united-nations/" aria-label="Read more about Tim Beal Analysis – BNZ and Palestine – New Zealand nearly sanctions the United Nations">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland’s Takutai Square today hailed the strong stance of Ireland over Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza – in contrast to a weak New Zealand position – while two blocks away in Te Komititanga Square (Britomart) hundreds of revellers were celebrating St Patrick’s Day. “The Irish ... <a title="NZ Palestine protesters praise Irish solidarity over Gaza on St Patrick’s Day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/17/nz-palestine-protesters-praise-irish-solidarity-over-gaza-on-st-patricks-day/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Palestine protesters praise Irish solidarity over Gaza on St Patrick’s Day">Read more</a>
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January 18, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The Biden administration has officially re-designated Ansarallah – the dominant force in Yemen also known as the Houthis – as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity. The White House claims the designation is an appropriate response to the group’s attacks on US military vessels and commercial ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of ... <a title="When Yemen does it it’s ‘terrorism’, when the US does it it’s ‘the rules-based order’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/18/when-yemen-does-it-its-terrorism-when-the-us-does-it-its-the-rules-based-order/" aria-label="Read more about When Yemen does it it’s ‘terrorism’, when the US does it it’s ‘the rules-based order’">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2023
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Roger D. Harris Alex Saab was freed from US captivity in what Venezuelan Prof. Maria Victor Paez described as “a triumph of Venezuelan diplomacy.” The diplomat had been imprisoned for trying to bring humanitarian supplies to Venezuela in legal international trade but in circumvention of Washington’s illegal economic coercive measures, ... <a title="How the Campaign to Free Venezuelan Political Prisoner Alex Saab Succeeded" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/22/how-the-campaign-to-free-venezuelan-political-prisoner-alex-saab-succeeded/" aria-label="Read more about How the Campaign to Free Venezuelan Political Prisoner Alex Saab Succeeded">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis If you’re as confused as most people by the exact circumstances surrounding the continuing presence in Fiji of the Russian super yacht Amadea, join the club. Here’s our modest attempt to cut through the fog. Twelve days ago — on April 14 — the CJ Patel Fiji Sun newspaper trumpeted an ... <a title="Graham Davis: Behind the saga of the ‘seized’ Russian super yacht Amadea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/28/graham-davis-behind-the-saga-of-the-seized-russian-super-yacht-amadea/" aria-label="Read more about Graham Davis: Behind the saga of the ‘seized’ Russian super yacht Amadea">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2022
RNZ Pacific The High Court in Suva has allowed an application by the public prosecutor to stop the super yacht Amadea belonging to Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov from leaving its waters. Kerimov, who was not on board, is facing sanctions from the United States, Britain and the European Union over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Fiji’s ... <a title="Fiji court orders oligarch’s super yacht to remain as US files new bid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/21/fiji-court-orders-oligarchs-super-yacht-to-remain-as-us-files-new-bid/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji court orders oligarch’s super yacht to remain as US files new bid">Read more</a>
