APR editor
French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Vanuatu's government has urged the French ambassador in Port Vila to use established diplomatic channels rather than social...
New Caledonia provincial elections set for June but voter roll changes...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's crucial provincial elections will be held next month on Sunday, June 28, French Prime...
Solomon Islands PM Jeremiah Manele ousted after just over two years...
RNZ Pacific
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has been ousted following a no-confidence vote in Honiara.
Manele was voted out by 26 votes to 22...
‘We’re under attack!’ – the night the Israelis struck the Global...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle
New Zealander Jay O’Connor had finished a long but satisfying day as a crew member aboard Eros 1, one of...
Iran war almost over . . . and the end...
COMMENTARY: By Prince Taofeek Ajibade
The signals are now coming from both sides of the negotiating table. American sources confirm it. Pakistani mediators confirm it.
The...
Does abolishing the BSA mean the end of NZ’s enforceable media...
ANALYSIS: By Peter Thompson
The announcement by New Zealand's Media and Communications Minister Paul Goldsmith that the government was abolishing the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA)...
New Caledonia suspends trade cooperation with Vanuatu in row over FLNKS...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's government says it has suspended all trade cooperation with Vanuatu after the Vanuatu government...
Israel’s kidnapping of two important pro-Palestine global activists reaffirms persecution
COMMENTARY: By Chris Hedges
Nothing illustrates the inversion of the international and moral order more than the genocide in Gaza and the shipment of tens...
Manele calls parliament for Thursday to face no confidence motion
RNZ Pacific
The Solomon Islands Parliament will convene tomorrow -- Thursday, May 7 -- to consider a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Jeremiah...
NZ govt must rebuke Israeli envoy over beating of citizens, says...
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has called on the New Zealand government to follow through on its demands that Israel complies...
Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Forough Amin in her opinion piece “The consequences of selective morality” (The Press, 28 April 2026) argues that the Palestine solidarity...
After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Kiwi Julien Blondel’s face may be bloodied but it is unbowed. So far the New Zealand government has done nothing after...
Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention
By Charlotte England of Novara Media
Israeli soldiers beat and tortured flotilla organisers Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Ávila after abducting them in international waters near...
Global Sumud Flotilla calls on NZ govt to intervene after Israeli...
RNZ News
The Global Sumud Flotilla is demanding the New Zealand government intervene to uphold international law, after being intercepted by Israel.
It said 22 boats...
NZer in flotilla intercepted by Israel has concussion and possible broken...
RNZ News
The wife of one of the New Zealanders in the flotilla intercepted by Israel in international waters says he has a concussion and...
Former Greek minister slams ‘Western complicity’ over brutal Israeli kidnap...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Brett Wilkins
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has slammed European leaders -- and the West at large -- for what he...
West Papua: The unhealed wounds and sorrow run deep in Puncak
ANALYSIS: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta
In middle of this month, two regencies in Papua again became epicentres of grief and national controversy.
Puncak Regency in...
Wenda calls on Indonesia to halt crackdown on peaceful Papua protests
Asia Pacific Report
A leader of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has called on Indonesian security forces to halt their crackdown on...
‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media
COMMENTARY: By Jason Brooke
1news tonight featured a report on the War in Ukraine. The reporter, a foreign war correspondent, explained to viewers how Ukrainian...
Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel
By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor
A woman whose great-grandparents -- all eight of them -- were Girmitiya labourers has put their stories into...
As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own...
ANALYSIS: By Jeremy Scahill
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has been on a strategic tour to prepare for two dramatically different paths that could unfold...
Fiji PM Rabuka gives govt support for controversial waste-to-energy project
RNZ Pacific
The Fiji Prime Minister has thrown his government's support behind a controversial waste-to-energy project at Vuda Point in the country's Western Division despite...








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