Yearly Archives: 2025

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A Paris appeal court has confirmed that Kanak pro-independence leader Christian Téin is now cleared to...

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand's major Palestine advocacy and protest group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned Defence Minister Judith Collins for "dog-whistling to her...

RNZ Pacific A Fiji deputy prime minister has been charged by the country's anti-corruption office with perjury and providing false information in his capacity as...

By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, and Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves host The future of the Manawanui wreckage and potential compensation payments remain...

Asia Pacific Report The International Criminal Court has rejected Israel’s bid to appeal against arrest warrants for its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence...

Asia Pacific Report A national advocacy and protest group has demanded that Foreign Minister Winston Peters condemn Israeli torture of Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti and...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Romana Rubeo Hundreds of Palestinians released from Israeli prisons in recent days have described scenes of systematic torture, starvation, and humiliation. Their accounts,...

By Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira, RNZ Māori news journalist Ngāti Toa Rangatira have gathered near the peak of their sacred maunga, Whitireia, to celebrate its historic return...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A controversial piece of legislation to postpone the date for New Caledonia's crucial provincial elections passed...

ANALYSIS: By Elijah J Magnier Benjamin Netanyahu insisted, until just hours before Donald Trump’s arrival, that the war in Gaza would not stop. Then, standing...

Asia Pacific Report Indonesian military forces have again bombed Kiwirok, the site of a massacre in 2021 that killed more than 300 West Papuan civilians,...

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone It’s bizarre how little mainstream attention is given to the fact that the President of the United States has repeatedly confessed...

RNZ Pacific Pacific leaders believe climate experts are missing an opportunity to incorporate indigenous knowledge into adaptation measures. The call has been made as hundreds of...

COMMENTARY: By Belén Fernández United States President Donald Trump had the time of his life on Monday at the Israeli Knesset, where he was welcomed...

Pacific Media Watch Pacific Media Watch supports the call by the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) for justice for the victims...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk As part of a never-ending rollercoaster of instability in French politics, the latest appointment of a...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. As we’ve reported, the Gaza ceasefire deal is in effect....

RNZ Pacific Pesi Siale Fonua, a veteran Pacific journalist and the publisher-editor of Tonga's leading news website Matangi Tonga Online, has died at the age...

Asia Pacific Report Two leftwing opposition members of the Knesset protested in the middle of US President Donald Trump's historic and rambling speech praising the...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: Israel’s government has approved the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, that includes a pause in Israeli attacks and the...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Within hours of being named the Nobel Peace laureate for 2025, María Corina Machado called on President Trump to step up...

Pacific Media Watch The global peak journalism body has condemned the targeting, harassment, and censorship by lobby groups of Australian journalists for reporting critically on...