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Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global activists’ freedom from Israel

Asia Pacific Report Three New Zealanders are being illegally held hostage by the Israeli military after security forces boarded more than 50 boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian...

Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international waters

Asia Pacific Report Türkiye has condemned Israel’s intervention against the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, describing it...

Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch When the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders released their annual World...

Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack on his own citizens

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “Whoever uses a citizen ill, indirectly offends the state, which is bound to protect this...

‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist

By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report A New Zealander who took part in the global flotilla trying...

The world cannot ignore Trump’s death threat to my people of Gaza

COMMENTARY: By Ahmed Najar ‘To the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD!...

Jonathan Cook: Yes, Trump is vulgar. But the US global shakedown is the same one as ever

ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook If there is one thing we can thank US President Donald Trump for, it is this: he has decisively stripped away...

Seven decades on, Marshall Islands still reeling from nuclear testing legacy

By Lydia Lewis The Marshall Islands marked 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tests ever conducted were unleashed last weekend. The Micronesian nation experienced...

NZ arms company building linked to Gaza genocide, claim peace activists

SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England Peace activists who scaled the roof an an international weapons company operating from Christchurch yesterday say the company links Aotearoa...

‘Our film won an Oscar. But here in West Bank’s Masafer Yatta we’re still being erased.’

DOCUMENTARY: Democracy Now! The Palestinian-Israeli film No Other Land won an Oscar for best documentary feature at Sunday’s Academy Awards. The film — recently screened in...

Caitlin Johnstone: Trump sends Netanyahu weapons while talking tough to Zelensky

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Israeli media are now reporting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering “a brief resumption” of the onslaught in Gaza in...