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May 17, 2026
By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor Niue’s assembly has re-elected Dalton Tagelagi as its prime minister, continuing his leadership for the next three years. Tagelagi, 57, has led Niue since 2020 and was nominated alongside Emani Fakaotimanava-Lui during the leadership vote. The 19th Niue Assembly was officially sworn in on Wednesday local time. Billy ... <a title="Close vote sees Niue’s Dalton Tagelagi back in as prime minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/17/close-vote-sees-niues-dalton-tagelagi-back-in-as-prime-minister/" aria-label="Read more about Close vote sees Niue’s Dalton Tagelagi back in as prime minister">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2026
Fijian Media Association Fiji’s media workers finally got to celebrate their World Press Freedom Day this week 11 days late — on Thursday, May 14. The event was pushed back from its traditional May 3 global date — which fell on a Sunday this year — to accommodate a packed news cycle dominated by parliamentary ... <a title="Fiji’s journalists celebrate belated World Press Freedom Day – but warn of threats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/17/fijis-journalists-celebrate-belated-world-press-freedom-day-but-warn-of-threats-2/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s journalists celebrate belated World Press Freedom Day – but warn of threats">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2026
PROFILE: By Campion Ohasio The Solomon Islands has entered a new political era. In a historic morning at Parliament House yesterday, Matthew Cooper Wale was elected as the nation’s new Prime Minister. His victory marks the culmination of a dramatic week in Honiara and signals a potential shift in both the country’s internal management and ... <a title="New chapter for Hapi Isles – Matthew Wale takes the helm as PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/17/new-chapter-for-hapi-isles-matthew-wale-takes-the-helm-as-pm/" aria-label="Read more about New chapter for Hapi Isles – Matthew Wale takes the helm as PM">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2026
Fijian Media Association Fiji’s media workers finally got to celebrate their World Press Freedom Day this week 11 days late — on Thursday, May 14. The event was pushed back from its traditional May 3 global date — which fell on a Sunday this year — to accommodate a packed news cycle dominated by parliamentary ... <a title="Fiji’s journalists celebrate belated World Press Freedom Day – but warn of threats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/17/fijis-journalists-celebrate-belated-world-press-freedom-day-but-warn-of-threats/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s journalists celebrate belated World Press Freedom Day – but warn of threats">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2026
ANALYSIS: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch When the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders released their annual World Press Freedom Index dossier online three days before World Press Freedom Day, journalists in the Asia-Pacific region were quick to check out their ranking. Overall the prognosis wasn’t very flattering. No country in the region was ... <a title="Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/17/improvements-in-pacific-media-freedom-but-a-shameful-silence-on-gaza-death-trap/" aria-label="Read more about Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2026
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A West Papuan church leader has warned that ongoing killings of young Papuans allegedly by Indonesian security forces have the hallmark of genocide. Since the start of the year there has been no stop to violent incidents in the Indonesian-ruled Papua region known internationally as West Papua. Indonesia’s ... <a title="‘They’re wiping us out’ – church leader warns about young West Papuans killed in escalating conflict" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/17/theyre-wiping-us-out-church-leader-warns-about-young-west-papuans-killed-in-escalating-conflict/" aria-label="Read more about ‘They’re wiping us out’ – church leader warns about young West Papuans killed in escalating conflict">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Alison Broinowski of Declassified Australia Most of the Western media refuse to join the dots and explain Israel’s decades-long obsession with defanging Tehran. The war in Iran is what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has planned for four decades. He has always wanted Israel to extend from Egypt to the Euphrates and in the ... <a title="Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/16/media-miss-the-questions-never-asked-behind-the-us-israel-war-on-iran/" aria-label="Read more about Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on Iran">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2026
Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Forum of New Zealand has criticised plans for the country taking part in next month’s military exercises with Israel and the United States, saying Wellington must not be seen aligning militarily with a state “facing serious allegations of war crimes and genocide before international legal institutions”. In a statement today, ... <a title="Palestine Forum slams NZDF share in military exercises with ‘genocidal’ Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/16/palestine-forum-slams-nzdf-share-in-military-exercises-with-genocidal-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine Forum slams NZDF share in military exercises with ‘genocidal’ Israel">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Frances Palmer While appreciating certain points in Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s speech “Securing NZ’s Future in a more Volatile World” on current challenges to international law, enshrined “rules” and “order”, we must take a hard look at the solutions he offers to enhance security. Security now clearly is shaped in a global context. ... <a title="Defending NZ values in a volatile world – but in what kind of a world?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/16/defending-nz-values-in-a-volatile-world-but-in-what-kind-of-a-world/" aria-label="Read more about Defending NZ values in a volatile world – but in what kind of a world?">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2026
Asia Pacific Report Amnesty International says it is “deeply alarmed” over the obstruction of justice and chaotic scenes — including gunfire — witnessed at the Philippines Senate this week over a fugitive from the International Criminal Court. Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, who faces an arrest warrant issued by the ICC, escaped from the Senate ... <a title="‘Arrest wanted Filipino former police chief’ call by Amnesty after escape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/15/arrest-wanted-filipino-former-police-chief-call-by-amnesty-after-escape/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Arrest wanted Filipino former police chief’ call by Amnesty after escape">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2026
The NSW Parliament’s antisemitism report was folded into the Bondi Royal Commission, missing the airing of contesting views and rigorous questioning, reports Michael West Media.COMMENTARY: By Stephen Lawrence Throughout 2025, I served on Australia’s first parliamentary inquiry into society-wide antisemitism. When the Bondi terrorist atrocity occurred, we had yet to finalise a report, and I ... <a title="NSW antisemitism hearings ‘drowned’ in the Bondi Royal Commission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/15/nsw-antisemitism-hearings-drowned-in-the-bondi-royal-commission/" aria-label="Read more about NSW antisemitism hearings ‘drowned’ in the Bondi Royal Commission">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2026
By Kim Wingerei Saher Alghorra, a Palestinian photojournalist, has won the Pulitzer Prize for a series of photographs published in The New York Times. What’s the scam? The scam is that so far, not a single Australian or New Zealand mainstream media outlet has reported on it, let alone dared show the “haunting images” from ... <a title="Palestinian photojournalist wins Pulitzer for breaking news photography" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/14/palestinian-photojournalist-wins-pulitzer-for-breaking-news-photography/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinian photojournalist wins Pulitzer for breaking news photography">Read more</a>
