Monthly Archives: March 2026

Iranian women hold photos of children who are killed by US-Israeli attacks, including a massacre at a Minab girls’ school that killed around 175 people

Zahra Sultana has mocked US and Israeli pretensions, saying in a BBC interview on Sunday -- International Women’s Day -- that the girls in...
A draft US military training document for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands provides for joint military training exercises

By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent The United States military has begun the formal environmental review process for the continuation...
Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast

REVIEW: Asia Pacific Report West Papuan diaspora, academics, students and community activists warmly applauded the screening of the new investigative documentary, Pesta Babi (Pig Feast):...
Densely populated parts of Tehran are being pounded by wave after wave of US and Israeli bombs.  Shahid Hamedani School in Tehran was struck on the day of the funerals of he schoolgirls from Minab

COMMENTARY:  By Eugene Doyle Three more schools and a major hospital have been bombed in Iran and more in Lebanon by the US-Israeli military, all...
Protesters wave flags and banners reading “Stop Bombing Iran” and “Stop Bombing the Middle East” as they gather at Victoria Tower Gardens in London

Thousands of anti-war demonstrators yesterday marched through central London, calling for an immediate halt to US and Israeli military operations against Iran and an...
A mourner attends the funeral of child killed in a strike on a primary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, at the start of the US-Israel war on Iran

ANALYSIS: By Hana Saada In an era when images can circle the globe in seconds and newsrooms claim to uphold universal humanitarian principles; one might...
“The safety of journalists is non-negotiable. War must under no circumstances hinder the work of the press," says RSF

Pacific Media Watch Journalists in Iran have been working amid hostile air strikes for almost a week since the start of the US-Israeli offensive while...
An oil tanker docked at the Port of Lyttelton, New Zealand

ANALYSIS: By Stephen Howes and Rubayat Chowdhury There is no doubt that the war Israel and the United States have launched against Iran will have...
Indigenous West Papuans struggle against the rapacious destruction of rainforest and militarisation of their lands

Asia Pacific Report A new documentary film on the devastating "ecocide" happening in West Papua will be screened as a world premiere at a weekend...
New All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The All Blacks have their first coach of Pasifika heritage. Dave Rennie has been given the job, replacing the ousted...
Iranians mourning the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

It’s only Day Five of the war, but surely the epic stupidity of Australia so cravenly backing the US-Israeli invasion of Iran is evident...
Mourners dig graves for the funeral of 170 children killed in a US-Israeli strike on a primary school

The US objective is not the security of the American people. The objective is global hegemony. The attempt is to destroy the UN and...
Community members in Iowa protest against the US-Israeli war on Iran

Peace Movement Aotearoa "One can oppose a hateful regime and, at the same time, oppose an unjustified and dangerous military intervention," says Spanish Prime Minister...
Pacific Island fuel prices are generally high and volatile

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Analysts are warning fuel prices are expected to jump in the Pacific following the Israeli and US attacks on...
A mourner holds up a picture of one of the victims of the US-Israeli attack on Iran at Minab

Alternative Jewish Voices -- Sh’ma Koleinu We, Alternative Jewish Voices, deplore Israel and America’s illegal war of aggression against Iran. We also condemned the repression...
Assassinated in the US-Israel attacks . . . Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Western countries, including  Australia and New Zealand, were quick to line up to support Operation Epic Fury, the US-Israeli blitzkrieg on...
"Trouble is brewing in the West, as people realise just how controlled their rulers are."

ANALYSIS: By Nury Vittachi The West is in turmoil over countries' top legal minds declaring the US-Israel attack on Iran to be illegal, as China...
Opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins

RNZ News New Zealand's opposition Labour leader Chris Hipkins says he does not support the United States and Israel's strikes on Iran. He disagrees with Prime...
Solomon Islands National University's vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau

RNZ Pacific A Solomon Islands academic says the US and Israel illegal bombing of Iran is "deeply alarming" and the Pacific region does not need...
The PNG Correctional Service headquarters where the alleged assault took place

Pacific Media Watch The Media Council of Papua New Guinea (MCPNG) has condemned an alleged assault on a senior female reporter and called on the...
If the US can install another puppet in Tehran as obedient as the Shah after the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s refineries will once again be at the mercy of US oil companies

COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell Funny . . . back when Russia invaded Ukraine, New Zealand didn’t wait for Vladimir Putin to tell us whether his...
Iran's Ambassador Reza Nazar Ahari

Asia Pacific Report Iran's ambassador to New Zealand says the joint US and Israeli strikes on his country need stronger condemnation, reports TV1 News. Ambassador Reza...