Yearly Archives: 2026

The US bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, on 28 February 2026 killed at least 156 people -- 120 of them children, 26 teachers, all women

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, I’m Amy Goodman. We’re broadcasting from Publix, the House of Journalism in Berlin, Germany. The Pentagon is sending...
Samoan Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt

RNZ The Journalists Association of Samoa (JAWS) is demanding answers over the removal of a journalist's camera and the deletion of photographs taken while she...
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national coordinator John Minto and another protester at the New Zealand aerospace summit

Asia Pacific Report Pro-Palestine protesters targeted Christchurch’s Te Pae Convention Centre yesterday to highlight the National Aerospace Summit's alleged ties with Israeli military. The protesters from...
The Fijian Health Ministry predicts more than 3000 new cases will be reported this year

RNZ Pacific reporters Fiji's lawmakers have passed legislation allowing the rollout of a needle exchange programme aimed at containing the rapid rise of HIV from...
Human rights lawyer Muhammad Dahleh

Asia Pacific Report Palestinian lawyer Muhammad Dahleh says moves to exclude Palestinian-led parties and candidates from Israel’s elections this month amount to “institutional discrimination,” arguing...
Earthjustice attorney David Henkin (left) and Rudy Bartley, a member of the nonprofit groups Faasao Amerika Samoa and Puipui Measina a Amerika Samoa

By Susana Suisuiki of RNZ Pacific An environmental group in American Samoa is taking legal action against the United States government over its plans for...
Temukisa Auina Penehuro Hauma

RNZ Pacific reporters Temukisa Auina Penehuro Hauma, 71, has become the first woman to be appointed the Governor-General of one of the world's smallest nations. Tuvalu...
A section of the cover of the new book Polynesian People’s Union designed by Kahu Fowler

REVIEW: By David Robie The seeds of resistance and later community empowerment began in Tāmaki Makaurau in a humble but lively bookshop in a rundown...
The new president of PINA, PNG's Neville Choi

By Tiana Haxton of RNZ Pacific The new president of the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) wants to strengthen the region's newsrooms. Neville Choi, who is...
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale

RNZ Pacific reporters Pacific Islands leaders have used their addresses to the United Nations General Assembly to urge Indonesia to allow the UN human rights...
Manolos Aviation in Papua New Guinea carried out an emergency medical evacuation

By Scott Waide of RNZ Pacific A young mother who gave birth to triplets in a remote part of Papua New Guinea was successfully evacuated,...
Investigative journalist Nicky Hager

The strength of Dirty Work is that it pulls back the curtain to reveal those who prefer to operate in the shadows. And now...
A Greenpeace deep-sea mining protester dressed as US President Donald Trump

By Ellen O'Dwyer of RNZ and RNZ Digital reporters Police are considering charges against Greenpeace protesters who occupied a state-owned ship in protest at seabed...
PNG's Prime Minister James Marape and the Solomon Islands leader Matthew Wale

RNZ Pacific reporters The leaders of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands have issued a strong call to action to industrial nations and the...
The Al Jazeera Media Network has repeatedly and vehemently condemned the “unfounded allegations” by the Israeli military - and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Pacific Media Watch Al Jazeera has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attack against the network during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted on an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, begins his controversial speech at UNGA

COMMENTARY: By Brett Wilkins New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has hit back after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the UN General Assembly...
A makeshift West Papuan refugee camp in Puncak Regency after dozens of villagers were displaced from their community by armed conflict in February

By Tiana Haxton of RNZ Pacific More than 125,000 people are reported to have been displaced in West Papua as armed conflict escalates, but the...
Negar Mortazavi, host of The Iran Podcast, talks to Al Jazeera's Listening Post

Pacific Media Watch With the US midterm elections just weeks away, US President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to put a positive spin on a...
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuk

By Prishanta Sharma in Savusavu Reaching communities beyond Pacific capitals must remain at the heart of journalism as technology creates new ways for the region...
Vanuatu's MV Matui tragedy on September 11

By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific As the Pacific Islands region reels from a series of recent maritime tragedies, a regional climatologist says it is...
Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian

COMMENTARY: By Reza Nasri President Masoud Pezeshkian came to New York with a written text. After hearing US President Donald Trump at the same rostrum...
Fijian Media Association general secretary Stanley Simpson (right) greets Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka at the 8th Pacific Media Summit in Savusavu

By Nacanieli Tuilevuka in Savusavu Fiji Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has urged Pacific journalists to check and verify information before disseminated it to the public, warning...