Yearly Archives: 2026

FLNKS president Christian Téin

By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific A court in Paris has dropped all charges against pro-independence Kanak leader Christian Téin and 13 others in their...
Maher Nazzal

After years away, I have finally returned to Palestine, not just to visit but to reconnect with the land, the people, the memories, and...
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (left) with Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

By Jake Wise in Suva Fiji will not be "militarily involved" in any of the conflicts currently involving the State of Israel, says the country's...
Disappeared Pesta Babi star Yasinta Moiwend - Mama Sinta

Asia Pacific Report Indonesia has kidnapped and threatened Mama Yasinta Moiwend (Mama Sinta), one of the Marind tribe women featured in the controversial documentary Pesta...
Fiji police talk to a Palestine protest organiser, Fiji Women's Crisis Centre coordinator Shamima Ali

Asia Pacific Report Pro-Palestine protesters in Fiji and Aotearoa New Zealand staged pickets in three cities today in protest against Israel opening its first embassy...
Fiji police questioning protesters at the pro-Palestine picket across the street from the new Israeli Embassy in Suva being officially opened today

Fijivillage News A protest led by the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre was held at their office today -- located opposite FHL Tower where the new...
New Zealand's nuclear-free zone since 1987

RNZ Morning Report Prime Minister Christopher Luxon insists the government is not going to review New Zealand's nuclear-free stance, and doing so would be detrimental...
"That anyone in the White House took this plan seriously, let alone acted on it, is a genuinely staggering notion. But the proposition that [former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] could retake the reins of power in Iran is possibly the least preposterous part of the scheme

It isn't Tehran led by unhinged, genocidal megalomaniacs threatening the security of the region and the world. It is Tel Aviv and Washington, writes...
PSNA's Anna Lee

Asia Pacific Report Israel is working with US Christian Zionists to make the Pacific "an Israeli pond" to help deliver votes in the United Nations,...
Among Pasifika awardees in the 2026 King's Birthday Honours List

By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific Twelve Pasifika people in New Zealand received awards in this year's King's Birthday Honours. The New Zealand Royal Honours acknowledges people...
Voting in the last Kanaky New Caledonian provincial elections in 2019 - before the covid pandemic

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The French Constitutional Council has validated an adjustment to New Caledonia's restrictions for their forthcoming provincial...
Mousa Taher

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle There was only one moment when I was interviewing him last week that Mousa Taher broke down and cried. It was...
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar

Asia Pacific Report Pro-Palestine activist groups plan to simultaneously protest against the opening of the first Pacific embassy by Israel with pickets in the Fiji...
"The face of courage vs the face of evil"

SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle I interviewed several of the New Zealanders who, as members of the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza, were taken hostage...
"The end of the US Empire, led by an impetuous and clueless President Donald Trump, is irreversible."

COMMENTARY: By Chris Hedges The humiliating defeat of Israel and the United States in their war on Iran, along with the savagery of the ongoing...
Al Jazeera English’s Open Source Unit reports on the land Illegally in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria taken over by the Israeli military

Jewish Voice for Peace The Israeli military is illegally grabbing land across Gaza, Lebanon and Syria -- with roughly 1000 sq km under their control,...
Joseph Vaa, 27, admitted gunning down suspected "Coconut Cartel" ringleader Lorenzo Lemalu Tovia outside a restaurant last week. Vaa's associate, Steve Tofa, 23, has confessed to being his accomplice in the shooting

By RNZ Morning Report and Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The bank accounts of two New Zealanders have been frozen as police probe an...
Five Palestinian journalists from Gaza imprisoned in Israeli jails

Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has accused the Israeli army and internal security agency Shin Bet of repeatedly perpetrating inhumane acts against Palestinian...
NZ Budget 2026 . . . Foreign Minister Winston Peters says a "highly active and effective foreign policy" is called for

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist New Zealand's Budget 2026 will see more foreign aid to the Pacific region, while defence and customs spending rises...
"The world has the right to defend itself from Israel"

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean In my view, the greatest source of instability in the Middle East today is the increasingly aggressive and expansionary posture of...
The moment "Coconut Cartel" ringleader Lorenzo Lemalu Tovia was gunned down

By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Samoa police have launched an investigation into a bizarre international case involving two Samoan men who have appeared...
Sydney CAM Rally . . . CAM uses tactics including social media, lobbying politicians and convening conferences to relentlessly pursue its goal of entrenching the IHRA definition of antisemitism into policy at all levels

As the Bondi Royal Commission continues, one major campaigner against antisemitism demonstrates its vehement opposition to social cohesion. Wendy Bacon reports for Michael West...