Yearly Archives: 2026

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...

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...

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...

COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell Funny . . . back when Russia invaded Ukraine, New Zealand didn’t wait for Vladimir Putin to tell us whether his...

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...

ANALYSIS: By Shannon Brincat and Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres The joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran represent a further erosion of the international legal order. Under...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle When I heard the terrible news that the Americans and Israelis had killed more than 165 children this week in an...

RNZ News Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says New Zealand's stance on the United States and Israeli bombing of Iran mirrors that of Australia. Australian Prime Minister...

RNZ Pacific The governments of Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have issued advisories for their nationals in the Middle East to remain calm and take...

By Mahmoud Aslan in Lamerd, southern Iran Dozens of teenage girls were attending their regular training sessions of volleyball, basketball, and gymnastics in the main...

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand's weak response to the unprovoked and illegal United States and Israel attacks on Iran at the weekend has stirred strong...

ANALYSIS: By Glenn Greenwald For decades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American neoconservatives have dreamed of only one foreign policy goal -- having the...

COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson Look around this morning. America and Israel, nuclear-armed states have attacked Iran. Israel, which has never declared its nuclear stockpiles nor its borders,...

REVIEW: Jubi Media Yasinta Moiwend was startled when, on a quiet morning, a massive ship docked at her village pier in West Papua. The vessel carried...

Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in central Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau today were highly critical of the erosion of New Zealand’s once proud...

OBITUARY: By Joel Paredes Having known the Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut, who died yesterday aged 69, for nearly half a century, I feel that looking...

Asia Pacific Report "We warned you," says Iran’s national security commission head after Israel-US missiles attacks on the capital Tehran and other cities. Al Jazeera reports...

INTERVIEW: By Eugene Doyle This is a moment of great peril for the small Caribbean nation of Cuba. Nothing less than its sovereignty is on...

Novara Media In a spectacular triumph, Britain's Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton byelection in Greater Manchester. Local plumber Hannah Spencer has now become...

Amnesty International Amnesty International has condemned Israeli authorities over unleashing a series of unlawful measures deliberately designed to dispossess Palestinians in the occupied West Bank...

Did ex-president Rodrigo Duterte’s actions merit an ICC trial? Here is how the prosecution, the victims’ representatives, and the defence are presenting their cases...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A number of remand prisoners at Papua New Guinea's Bomana Prison have been injured in a confrontation with...