Yearly Archives: 2026

The first satellite image of the bombing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's compound in Tehran on the opening day of the surprise and illegal US-Israeli attack on Iran

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...
"The terrible news that the Americans and Israelis had killed more than 150 children this week"

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...
NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

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...
The Iranian Red Crescent reports US and Israeli attacks on areas close to medical and humanitarian facilities

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...
A sports hall in Lamerd, southern Iran, where dozens of teenage girls were attending training sessions

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...
Iranian politician, author, and lawyer Mohammad Mossadegh

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...
Trump and Netanyahu claim the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has been killed

ANALYSIS: By Glenn Greenwald For decades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American neoconservatives have dreamed of only one foreign policy goal -- having the...
Carlos Latuff on the US-Israel dual attacks on Iran

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,...
Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) . . . Indonesian colonialism in West Papua

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...
Physicist and peace advocate Dr Peter Wills

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...
Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut

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...
Israel and US stage joint attacks on Tehran

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...
Solidarity author Eugene Doyle with Cuban Ambassador Luis Ernesto Morejón Rodríguez

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...
New UK Green Party member Hannah Spencer

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...
Expanding the Israeli illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim

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...
Former Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte

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...
Port Moresby's Bomana Correctional Facility . . . nine inmates injured in an confrontation with jail guards. Image: RNZ/Johnny Blades

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...
Sports consultant and journalist Charlie Charters

By Christine Rovoi of PMN News The arrest and charging of British-Fijian publisher Charlie Charters has pushed Fiji’s anti-corruption watchdog into fresh controversy. Charters' arrest by...
Preparations for the FLNKS "National Unity" list for the local elections due in New Caledonia

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Senators have endorsed a Constitutional amendment text regarding New Caledonia's future political status. Two-hundred and fifteen...
Social justice and Palestine campaigner Roger Fowler

The Palestine Chronicle New Zealand activist Roger Fowler, a longtime Gaza solidarity organiser and Palestine Chronicle contributor, who died last Saturday, leaves a legacy of...
“Pesta Babi" (The Pig Party) . . . the West Papuan documentary film

Pacific Media Watch A world premiere of a new documentary revealing the devastation of rainforest in the southeastern part of West Papua is one of...
Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

RNZ Pacific Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says his government will not interfere with the work of the country's anti-corruption body following the latest turn...