Yearly Archives: 2026

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist From heavy visa bonds to suspended applications to straight-up travel bans, the United States has implemented or announced sweeping...

Team Zeteo The cost of telling the truth from inside a society that has become “completely genocidal” is very high, says Yuli Novak, executive director...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle If you want to understand what’s going on in Iran, abandon what the Persians invented centuries ago: Manichaeism. We use the...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Keeara Ofren The lives of children will always tell the past and future of any community. My colleague Estelle and I will...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia's pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS)  has put in a late request...

COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell On 14 December 2025, a father and son, reportedly linked to the ISIS clerical fascist organisation, committed a murderous attack on...

Middle East Monitor Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Wednesday that Israel has always tried to draw the US into wars fought “on its...

By Adam Burns, RNZ News reporter There has been mixed reaction in parts of New Zealand's red-and-black country -- Canterbury -- following the shock axing...

Renee Good, like many Palestinians before her, died because authoritarian forces decided she did not deserve to live, and because the entire legal and...

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Just over a week after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) --...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), one of the main components in New Caledonia's...

ANALYSIS: By Saeid Golkar Iran is living through one of the most dangerous moments in its post-revolutionary history. Nationwide protests have become sustained rather than...

Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan advocacy group has condemned Indonesia over taking up the presidency of the United Nations Human Rights Council, saying it...

By Kim Wingerei and Michael West in Sydney Adelaide Writers' Week, a core part of South Australia’s premier cultural event, the Adelaide Festival, has finally...

The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be...

Indonesia needs a fundamental shift in perspective: seeing Papuans not as a problem to be managed, but as equal partners and full subjects of...

By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent Leaders in the Northern Marianas have warned that a deepening economic crisis in the...

RNZ Pacific A proposal by Sāmoa's Prime Minister to ban all non-Christian religions from the country is being met with mixed reactions. The Samoa Observer reported...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last week announced a Royal Commission into the Bondi Beach Attack and antisemitism. Andrew Brown weighs the evidence on...

RNZ Pacific Sāmoa is set to become the third Pacific nation to have an embassy in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Polataivao Schmidt told a gathering of...

By Pretoria Gordon, RNZ News journalist A former head of the United Nations Development Programme is concerned that US President Donald Trump may set a...

The Australian government remains silent on Israel banning 37 international aid organisations in Gaza, despite warnings from humanitarian groups. Stephanie Tran reports. By Stephanie Tran...