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Israel’s diabolical killing machine and how it targets journalists

As World Press Freedom Day rapidly approaches and Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Israeli government for its massacre of journalists in Lebanon and Palestine, New Zealand journalist David...

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers have plagued the Pacific

Updated research has shown up lingering headaches over the impacts of decades-long nuclear testing in the Pacific islands...

Amnesty slams Netanyahu, Putin, Trump as ‘voracious predators’

By Anealla Safdar in London The heads of Israel, Russia and the United States are leading the destruction of...

South African activist praises World Court genocide case against Israel

By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report A South African-born New Zealand critic of Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing today...

Gaza’s young, untrained journalists step up to document Israel’s war crimes

Pacific Media Watch At least 262 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war...

Protesters call for West Papua to be included on UN ‘decolonisation’ list

Asia Pacific Report An Australian advocacy group has called for West Papua to be reinscribed on the United Nations list of “non self-governing territories”, citing...

Caledonian Union dismisses ‘two generations to self-determination’ comment as an insult

By Walter Zweifel New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party says the latest French pronouncement on self-determination is an insult to the decolonisation process. Amid a dispute over...

Fiji President welcomes inclusive ‘new dawn’ for Great Council of Chiefs

By Iliesa Tora and Kelvin Anthony Chiefs are to serve people and not to be served, Fiji President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere told the Great Council...

Timor-Leste’s opposition party wins election ‘punishing’ ruling Fretilin coalition

ABC Pacific Beat Timor-Leste independence hero Xanana Gusmao has won the parliamentary election, but the country’s first president may contest the count after his party...

France briefs UN on New Caledonia decolonisation impasse

By Walter Zweifel French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has invited the United Nations Decolonisation Committee members to visit New Caledonia. Controlled by France since 1853, New...

Blinken, Daki sign controversial US-PNG defence pact after day of protests

The National, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea yesterday intialled a defence cooperation agreement with the United States amid day-long protests against the signing by...