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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 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 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
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>
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April 6, 2024
PNG Post-Courier The Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) has declared its solidarity with civil society groups and student protesters demonstrating against the torture of a Papuan man, Defianus Kogoya, by Indonesian troops in West Papua last February. The torture was revealed in a video that went viral across the world last month. PANG said in ... <a title="Let in UN human rights mission to West Papua – stop Indonesian impunity, says PANG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/06/let-in-un-human-rights-mission-to-west-papua-stop-indonesian-impunity-says-pang/" aria-label="Read more about Let in UN human rights mission to West Papua – stop Indonesian impunity, says PANG">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Demonstrations have been held in New Caledonia — with more protests expected — from both pro- and anti-independence supporters after the French Senate endorsed a constitutional amendment bill to “unfreeze” the French Pacific territory’s electoral roll. The Senators endorsed a move from the French government to ... <a title="Noumea faces more protests over New Caledonia voting rules change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/05/noumea-faces-more-protests-over-new-caledonia-voting-rules-change/" aria-label="Read more about Noumea faces more protests over New Caledonia voting rules change">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2024
By Temalesi Vono in Suva Fijian bus drivers and bus checkers wake up early in the morning to serve the public so it is disappointing to see school students harassing and bullying them, says the bus operators industry group. Fiji Bus Operators Association general secretary Rohit Latchan said he was responding to a recent video ... <a title="Fiji bus drivers criticise bullying by school student video – ‘we’re human’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/04/fiji-bus-drivers-criticise-bullying-by-school-student-video-were-human/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji bus drivers criticise bullying by school student video – ‘we’re human’">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Indonesia’s military regional command in Papua has denied claims made by a pro-independence West Papuan group that abducted New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens more than a year ago that the army had staged a bombing attack, The Jakarta Post reports. Responding to a claim by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) ... <a title="Indonesian military deny bombing Papua district in bid to free NZ pilot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/02/indonesian-military-deny-bombing-papua-district-in-bid-to-free-nz-pilot/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military deny bombing Papua district in bid to free NZ pilot">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The Singapore cargo ship Dali chartered by Maersk, which collapsed the Baltimore bridge in the United States last month, was carrying 764 tonnes of hazardous materials to Sri Lanka, reports Colombo’s Daily Mirror. The materials were mostly corrosives, flammables, miscellaneous hazardous materials, and Class-9 hazardous materials — including explosives and lithium-ion batteries ... <a title="Baltimore bridge crash ship carrying toxic waste to Sri Lanka, says Mirror" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/02/baltimore-bridge-crash-ship-carrying-toxic-waste-to-sri-lanka-says-mirror/" aria-label="Read more about Baltimore bridge crash ship carrying toxic waste to Sri Lanka, says Mirror">Read more</a>