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USCGC Harriet Lane Conducts Maritime Law Enforcement Operations With Cook Islands Partners
Seapower Magazine
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June 17, 2025
From Coast Guard 14th District External Affairs, June 16, 2025 RAROTONGA, Cook Islands – The U.S. Coast Guard concluded bilateral maritime law enforcement operations alongside Cook Islands law enforcement partners offshore Rarotonga Friday. The...
Strengthening crisis planning between Australia and Cook Islands
Cook Island News
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June 17, 2025
Australia’s Pacific Coordinator in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Crisis Preparedness and Management Branch, Angela Johnson (third from left), visited Rarotonga to enhance cooperation on crisis response and consular planning. She is...
PM confirms 25 businesses in arrears on Covid-19 loans
Cook Island News
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June 21, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Brown in Parliament in June. 25061850. Twenty-five businesses are behind repayments of a business loan that was issued by the Cook Islands government to support them during the 2020 Covid pandemic. Prime Minister Mark Brown...
Parliament news
Cook Island News
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June 21, 2025
Opposition Member of Parliament Teariki Heather. LOSIRENE LACANIVALU / 25061851 Opposition Member of Parliament Teariki Heather has raised concerns about the funding allocated to families for funeral assistance. Heather said a lot of Cook...
PM appeals to China’s ego in the pursuit of peace
Newsroom
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June 20, 2025
Analysis: The Prime Minister has singled out the Pacific, the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea as tension points during his meetings with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing. And when pushed, he all-but confirmed he also raised China’s...
Rarotonga International Airport unveils stunning murals connecting all 15 islands
Cook Island News
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June 27, 2025
Artist Katu Teiti with the mural he worked on with his apprentice, Ameilia, at the Rarotonga International Airport, yesterday. The mural represents Rarotonga. TEITIMOANA TAIRI/25062604 As part of the Cook Islands 60th Anniversary Legacy Programme...
Diaspora calls for digital voting, online access in land law reform push
Cook Island News
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June 26, 2025
Minister for Justice Vaine “Mac” Mokoroa during Tuesday’s Parliament sitting. TALAIA MIKA/25062413 A major overhaul of the country’s outdated land laws could soon give Cook Islanders overseas the right to participate in land decisions remotely,...
VIDEO: Iranian women's team support armed forces
Mehr News Agency
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July 13, 2025
TEHRAN, Jul. 13 (MNA) – Before their match against the Cook Islands at the FIBA Women’s Asia Cup China 2025, Iran’s women’s national basketball team gave a military salute in a show of support for the Iranian armed forces.
Tall ship denied entry to Scots harbour due to Russian-born captain
STV News
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July 16, 2025
A tall ship has been denied entry into the Port of Aberdeen due to it being captained by a Russian-born man. The TS Shtandart released an open letter directed to the city’s port authorities, confirming that they had also been excluded from the...
New Zealand citizenship ‘by right, not privilege’, says PM Brown
Cook Island News
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June 24, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Brown in Parliament on June 23, 2025. LOSIRENE LACANIVALU / 25062320 Cook Islanders are New Zealand citizens “not by privilege, but by right”, said Prime Minister Mark Brown in response to a recent poll conducted in New Zealand...
LUXON’S COMPLICITY PUTS AOTEAROA AT RISK: TE PĀTI MĀORI STANDS AGAINST GLOBAL MILITARY AGGRESSION – Maori Party
The Daily Blog
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June 23, 2025
Te Pāti Māori stands firmly against the rising tide of global military aggression. While the Luxon scrambles to appease Trump and Israel, we choose peace, sovereignty, and an independent foreign policy grounded in justice and truth. More than...
Audrey Young: Rating David Seymour as Acting Prime Minister
Waikato Herald
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It was his 42nd birthday, and he earned a double celebration. With few exceptions, he was accomplished enough as acting leader of the coalition Government of three parties, as he was required to be, not the leader of Act. He digressed only once...
Is New Caledonia's agreement a 'new chapter' or a 'betrayal'?
RNZ
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July 15, 2025
By Doug Dingwall, Jordan Fennell and Johnson Raela, ABC with wires French officials met with New Caledonian representatives in Paris to negotiate an agreement on the territory's status. Photo: AP French President Emmanuel Macron hailed it a...
Calls for government to denounce United States attack on Iran
RNZ
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June 23, 2025
This handout satellite picture shows damage after US strikes on the Isfahan nuclear enrichment facility in central Iran. Photo: AFP / Satellite Image Maxar Technologies Prominent lawyers are joining opposition parties as they call for the New...
Letter to Prime Minister Carney: Canada's Position on Deep Sea Mining
MiningWatch Canada
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The following letter was sent to Prime Minister Marc Carney by 20 Canadian and international civil society organizations, coalitions, and unions, including MiningWatch Canada. The Right Honourable Mark Carney, P.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada...
The politics, and politicians, of nostalgia
interest.co.nz
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By Chris Trotter* What do politicians do when the present is a mess and the future promises more of the same? Mostly, in these all-too-familiar circumstances, politicians turn for help and solace to the past. They go looking for policies that...
Luxon’s Complicity Puts Aotearoa At Risk: Te Pāti Māori Stands Against Global Military Aggression
Scoop
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Te Pāti Māori stands firmly against the rising tide of global military aggression. While the Luxon scrambles to appease Trump and Israel, we choose peace, sovereignty, and an independent foreign policy grounded in justice and truth. More than...
Harmony at the International Day of Yoga celebration at USP Samoa
Talamua
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June 22, 2025
By Dwayne Mahimkar* Apia, Samoa – 23 June 2025 – Samoa is among the first in the world to celebrate the 11th International Day of Yoga, held at the USP Samoa campus in Alafua early Saturday morning. Around 30+ people partook in this year’s Yoga...
Letter: PM ‘overstepping the Mark’
Cook Island News
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June 20, 2025
The people of the Cook Islands suffer from PM Brown’s arrogant bad behaviour. Yet again, our PM is a source of embarrassment to the nation by having our $18 million aid from New Zealand suspended, for his political flirtations with communist...
‘Partnership, not paternalism’- PM slams NZ aid pause as ‘patronising’ amid China deal row
Cook Island News
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June 20, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Brown in Parliament on June 16, 2025. LOSIRENE LACANIVALU / 25061621 Cook Islands engages with countries “who respect our sovereignty”, says Prime Minister Mark Brown, calling New Zealand’s decision to pause $18.2 million in...