Yearly Archives: 2025

Asia Pacific Report A Palestine solidarity advocate today appealed to New Zealanders to shed their feelings of powerlessness over the Gaza genocide and "take action"...

COMMENTARY: By Anna Naupa Out of the rubble of last year's 7.3 magnitude earthquake that hit Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila on December 17 and the...

An open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in response to the social media giant's decision to abandon its fact-checking regime protection in the...

RNZ Pacific Solomon Islands has the highest-ranked passport of Pacific Island nations, at 37th equal globally. This is according to the Henley Passport Index. The index, organised...

COMMENTARY: By Cathy Peters To be Jewish does not mean an automatic identification with the rogue state of Israel. Nor does it mean that Jews...

RNZ News A descendant of one of the original translators of New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi says the guarantees of the Treaty have not been...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia's newly-installed government has elected pro-France Alcide Ponga as territorial President. Ponga, 49, is also the...

REVIEW: By David Robie Four months ago, a group of lawyers in Aotearoa New Zealand called for a little reported inquiry into New Zealand spy...

Asia Pacific Report A former director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Alon Liel, has warned over a "dangerous" attitude of younger generations in Israel...

RNZ Pacific Honolulu police have announced the death of a fourth person due to the New Year's Eve fireworks explosion in Aliamanu, Hawai'i -- a...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Paul Gregoire United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) provisional government interim president Benny Wenda has warned that since Indonesian President Prabowo...

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor The fate of Palestinian Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, who was "arrested" by Israeli...

Asia Pacific Report Israel is forcing two hospitals in northern Gaza to evacuate under threat of attack as its ethnic cleansing campaign continues. Israeli forces have...

Fijivillage News A man has been charged with the rape and sexual assault of one of the Virgin Australia crew members in the early hours...

Navigating the shared challenges of climate change, geostrategic tensions, political upheaval, disaster recovery and decolonisation plus a 50th birthday party, reports a BenarNews contributor's...

Asia Pacific Report The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, has called on “medical professionals worldwide” to suspend...

COMMENTARY: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report With the door now shut on 2024, many will heave a sigh of relief and hope...

By Maram Humaid in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Journalists gathered at Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital expressed outrage and confusion about the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) decision to...

By Talaia Mika of the Cook Islands News The Cook Islands will not pursue membership in the United Nations and the Commonwealth due to its...

COMMENTARY: By Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab As 2024 came to a close and we have stepped into a new year overshadowed by ongoing atrocities, have you stopped...

By Cheerieann Wilson in Suva Fiji's Office of the President has confirmed that the Tribunal’s report on allegations of misconduct against suspended Director of Public...

By Anish Chand in Suva Virgin Australia has confirmed a “serious security incident” with its flight crew members who were in Fiji on New Year's...