Yearly Archives: 2025

The UN Security Council in emergency session yesterday discussing the US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities

By Lillian Hanly, RNZ News political reporter Prominent lawyers are joining opposition parties as they call for the New Zealand government to denounce the United...
A protester at the Palestine rally against Israel's Gaza genocide and attack on Iran

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand's opposition Green Party has called on the government to condemn the United States for its illegal bombing of Iran and...
A C-130J Hercules at Whenuapai RNZAF base

By Giles Dexter, RNZ News political reporter The Defence Force is sending a plane to the Middle East to assist any New Zealanders stranded in...
Guam's Governor Lou Leon Guerrero says missile testing and housing nuclear weapons on the US Pacific territory is a way of deterring aggression

By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent Leaders in the US-affliliated Pacific Islands have reacted to the US strikes on Iran. US...
NCD Governor Powes Parkop with a West Papua flag

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Two international organisations are leading a call for the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) to elevate the membership status...
A "No Iran War" placard as protests across Iran and around the world condemn Israeli and US aggression

BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied Bethlehem Kia ora koutou, I’m a Kiwi journo in occupied Bethlehem, here’s a brief summary of today’s events across...
PSNA co-chair Maher Nazzal (left) at yesterday's Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland

Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has called on New Zealanders to condemn the US bombing of Iran. PSNA co-chair Maher Nazzal said...
New Zealand protesters in Auckland yesterday condemning the genocide in Gaza

The US-Israeli attack against Iran will intensify the forces that are already destroying international law legacies and the UN system in the Middle East...
Protesters shout slogans and hold placards during a national demonstration against the Israeli wars on Gaza, occupied Palestine and Iran

Pacific Media Watch BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied Bethlehem Kia ora koutou, I’m a Kiwi journo in occupied Bethlehem, here’s a brief summary of today’s...
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have protested in Iran against Israel.

Democracy Now! Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, held talks with France, Germany, and the United Kingdom yesterday in Geneva as Israel’s attacks on Iran entered...
New Zealand Palestinian artist and activist Rana Hamida

Asia Pacific Report A leading Middle East analyst has pushed back against US President Donald Trump's dismissal of the conclusion of his own national intelligence...
Wartime Israeli paranoia

BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied Bethlehem Kia ora koutou,  I’m a Kiwi journo in occupied Bethlehem, here’s a brief summary of today’s events across...
A Cook Islands resident, Jackie Tuara,

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/producer Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark believes the Cook Islands, a realm of New Zealand, caused a crisis...
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has suggested a double standard, saying he was "not privy to or consulted...
Destabilised uranium enrichment centrifuges at Natanz, and possibly the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, could cause them to vibrate and spin uncontrollably

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The surprise US-Israeli attack on Iran is literally and figuratively designed to unleash centrifugal forces in the Islamic Republic. Two nuclear powers...
IDF soldiers in occupied Bethlehem

BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied Bethlehem Kia ora koutou,  I’m a Kiwi journo in occupied Bethlehem, here's a brief summary of today’s events across...
It is more likely that Israel launched its attack to stop US and Iranian negotiators from meeting

ANALYSIS: By Joe Hendren Had Israel not launched its unprovoked attack on Iran on Friday night, in direct violation of the UN Charter, Iran would...
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) and NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

BACKGROUNDER: By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor/presenter; Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific; and Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist New Zealand has paused $18.2 million in...
Arab members of the Global March To Gaza were the targets of the most dramatic and violent excesses committed by the Egyptian authorities

SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England in Ōtautahi and Ava Mulla in Cairo Hope for freedom for Palestinians remains high among a group of trauma-struck New...
Sacked FICAC Commissioner Barbara Malimali

RNZ Pacific Fiji police have commenced investigations into a Commission of Inquiry report on the appointment of the country's now sacked head of the anti-corruption...
Justice For Palestine

Asia Pacific Report Ninety-five New Zealand lawyers -- including nine king’s counsel -- have signed a letter demanding Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, Foreign Minister Winston...
Middle East Eye editor-in-chief David Hearst

Pacific Media Watch The Big Picture Podcast host, New Zealand-Egyptian journalist and author Mohamed Hassan, interviews Middle East Eye editor-in-chief David Hearst about the rapidly...