Yearly Archives: 2026

Kanaky New Caledonia's new Territorial President Milakulo Tukumuli

By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific A member of New Caledonia's Eveil Océanien kingmaker's party, Milakulo Tukumuli, has been elected as the new President of...
7amleh's Nadim Nashif

COMMENTARY: By +972 podcast presenter Alaa Salama As +972 Magazine’s audience engagement manager, social media is a huge part of my job. I use it...
Slurs by NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters makes the global news for Al Jazeera

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand was typically restrained, dignified but crystal clear when he responded to Foreign Minister Winston Peter’s...
Te Tinihanga o Ngā Mātāpono o te Tiriti

By Layla Bailey-McDowell of RNZ New Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal has found the Crown breached multiple principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi by approving plans to...
Samoa's opposition leader Tuilaepa Sailele Mallielegaoi

By Christina Persico of RNZ Pacific World Rugby has denied reports that it gave Samoa an ultimatum to sort out problems over which body governs...
The Samoan rugby crisis as reported by the Samoa Observer

By Margot Staunton of RNZ Pacific Samoa's opposition leader Tuilaepa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi says the country faces suspension by World Rugby today because of "a dirty...
Switzerland is meeting its Paris obligations and improving the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process

By Jeremy Rose In the run-up to the 1975 New Zealand election, the Labour, National, Social Credit, and Values parties all committed to the target...
Part of a support poster in the campaign to keep Lyttelton Port in public hands

COMMENTARY: By Saige England The people won. The environment won. The Lyttelton port remains in public hands. For now. Please join the protest tomorrow. There is...
Lyttelton Port . . . controversial DP World-backed Tonui Consortium proposal rejected

Asia Pacific Report Christchurch City Holdings Limited (CCHL) has declined to proceed with a controversial proposal to lease operations at the port, the company announced...
An Indigenous Dayak villager shows pictures of her rubber plantation destroyed

By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report says that the Indonesian government is silencing environmental activists and journalists in...
US President Dionald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Wednesday: The United States signs a civil nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia. A “decades-long, multi-billion-dollar partnership,” Washington calls it. Thursday: The President...
Israel and the US rejected the ICC legal ruling and demanded a political vote of all member states of the ICC to remove Karim Khan

Asia Pacific Report A leading Palestine solidarity group in New Zealand has challenged Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to explain why his government has not revealed...
Tuvalu police inspecting the bridge of the arrested Chinese longliner Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138

By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Tuvalu has arrested a Chinese tuna longliner, borrowing a vessel from a wellknown conservation charity to do so. On the...
The International Court of Justice in The Hague

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle In a secret vote on July 24, the member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) voted to remove Chief Prosecutor...
PSNA flyers supporting Palestine

Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand national solidarity group for Palestine has condemned plans by Nauru to open an embassy in Jerusalem as an "alarming...
The Akaroa Mail editor and owner Michael de Hamel, 41 years at the helm

By Rachel Graham of RNZ Newspapers in New Zealand and around the world are under increasing pressure with many businesses facing restructures, going digital or...
Fiji's Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC)

By Margot Staunton of RNZ Pacific Fiji's former chief prosecutor, Christopher Pryde, claims there was a racist, government-led conspiracy to get rid of him. The New...
We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch Western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Basically we’ve got two choices: we either aggressively denormalise Israel or we watch our society become more and more Israeli. We either...
Iranian Ambassador to New Zealand Reza Nazar Ahari

INTERVIEW: By Eugene Doyle In this interview with Reza Nazar Ahari, the Iranian Ambassador to Wellington, we discussed the war, the state of diplomacy with...
Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and rightwing Israelis under military protection storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque

Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Forum of New Zealand has condemned the latest Israeli assault on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, where...
Iranian and Palestinian flags at a New Zealand rally against the war on Iran and the Gaza genocide

RNZ The government is again warning New Zealanders not to transit through the Middle East as US President Donald Trump threatens further military strikes on...
Tehran's parliamentary Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean “If we can’t sell oil, we will make sure you can’t too.” That is the message Iran’s parliamentary Speaker has just sent...