Yearly Archives: 2025

This legislation could capture critics of New Zealand’s foreign and defence policy

COMMENTARY: By Maire Leadbeater Aotearoa New Zealand's coalition government has introduced a bill to criminalise "improper conduct for or on behalf of a foreign power"...
Armed resistance fighters of the Jenin Brigade in Jenin refugee camp 0n 29 December 2025

While mediator Qatar says a Gaza ceasefire deal is at the closest point it has been in the past few months -- adding that...
And now there are 10 in BRICS, the alternative to the G7 bloc

ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin Indonesia officially joined the BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa -- consortium last week marking a significant milestone in...
Filipino investigative journalist Manny "Bok" Mogato

By Ria de Borja in Manila For 30 years, Filipino journalist Manny “Bok” Mogato covered the police and defence rounds, and everything from politics to...
Koniambo Nickel

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia's mothballed northern nickel plant, Koniambo Nickel (KNS), has appointed a new chairman to steer...
The 1978 Camp David Accords

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! As we continue our discussion of President Jimmy Carter’s legacy, we look at his policies in the...
French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk France's naval flagship, the 261m aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, is to be deployed to the...
Protesters flag a revived BDS - boycott, divest, sanction - campaign today over the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza

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"...
A candidate’s campaign poster for Vanuatu’s snap general election next week on January 16

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...
"If people believe social media platforms are full of scams and hoaxes, they won’t want to spend time there or do business on them."

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...
Solomon Islands passports

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...
BDS focuses on the actions of Israel as a colonial, occupying power

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...
Te Tiriti o Waitangi

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...
New Caledonia's new territorial President Alcide Ponga

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...
A protest over a controversial and widely condemned series of heavily armed nationwide Te Urewera raids

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...
South African activist Achmat Esau speaking out at the New Zealand protest rally in downtown Auckland

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...
Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi

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...
Displaced Oksop villagers in West Papua

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...
A "Free Dr Hussam" protest in Leeds, United Kingdom

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...
Mock bodies on the pavement in Te Komititanga Square in the heart of Auckland's shopping precinct

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...
Accused man is in custody and will appear in court on Monday

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...
The Pacific 2025 year ahead

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...