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NZ Māori Council, PSNA appeal for urgent action over Gaza starvation
Asia Pacific Report
The New Zealand Māori Council and Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa made a high profile appeal to Foreign Minister Winston Peters over Gaza...
New Caledonia’s political talks – no outcome after three days of...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific Desk
After three solid days of talks in retreat mode, New Caledonia's political parties have yet to...
‘Under no illusions’ about France, says author of new Rainbow Warrior...
Pacific Media Watch
The author of the book Eyes of Fire, one of the countless publications on the Rainbow Warrior bombing almost 40 years ago...
Cook Islands environment group calls on govt to condemn Trump’s seabed...
By Losirene Lacanivalu, of the Cook Islands News
A leading Cook Islands environmental lobby group is hoping that the Cook Islands government will speak out...
In its soul-searching, Australia’s rightist coalition should examine its relationship with...
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University and Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne
Among the many lessons to be learnt by Australia's defeated Liberal-National coalition...
Trump’s push on deep sea mining leaves Nauru’s commercial ambitions ‘out...
By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Nauru's ambition to commercially mine the seabed is likely at risk following President Donald Trump's executive order last...
Human rights group calls for probe into attack on Freedom Flotilla...
Asia Pacific Report
A human rights agency has called for an investigation into the drone attacks on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla aid ship Conscience with...
Australia ‘Islamic Caliphate’? Dark money and the 11th hour election propaganda...
An 11th-hour blitzkrieg for the Australian election 2025 tomorrow claims the Greens are enabling extremists who “will do anything in their power to establish...
New Zealand condemned for failing to make ICJ humanitarian case...
Asia Pacific Report
The advocacy group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned the New Zealand government fpr failing to make a humanitarian submission to the...
Dark money: Labor and Liberal join forces in attacks on Teals...
Teals and Greens are under political attack from a new pro-fossil fuel, pro-Israel astroturfing group, adding to the onslaught by far-right lobbyists Advance Australia...
NZ doctors defend nationwide strike action over recruitment
By Ruth Hill, RNZ News reporter
Striking senior New Zealand doctors have hit back at the Health Minister's attack on their union for "forcing" patients...
Gallery: Doctors, health workers challenge NZ government over national crisis
Asia Pacific Report
Thousands of senior hospital doctors and specialists walked off the job today for an unprecedented 24-hour strike in protest over stalled contract...
On ‘moral panic’ and the courage to speak – the West’s...
Palestinians do not have the luxury to allow Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is...
Greenpeace slams deep sea mining bid as ‘rogue’ disregard for global...
By Reza Azam
Greenpeace has condemned an announcement by The Metals Company to submit the first application to commercially mine the seabed.
"The first application to...
50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to...
Part Three of a three-part Solidarity series
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
30 April 1975. Saigon Fell, Vietnam Rose. The story of Vietnam after the US fled...
Māori leaders urge UN to act stronger on NZ’s ‘regressive’ policies
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson in New York
Claire Charters, an expert in indigenous rights in international and constitutional law, has told the United Nations the...
French Minister Valls warns New Caledonia is ‘on a tightrope’, pleads...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls, who is visiting New Caledonia this week for the third...
Vanuatu communities growing climate resilience in wake of Cyclone Lola
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor, and Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor
Communities in Vanuatu are learning to grow climate resilient crops, 18 months...
Homage paid to Pope Francis at NZ street theatre rally for...
Asia Pacific Report
Activists for Palestine paid homage to Pope Francis in Aotearoa New Zealand today for his humility, care for marginalised in the world,...
Samoan nun tells of ‘like a blur’ awesome meeting with Pope...
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific presenter
The doors of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican have now been closed and the coffin sealed, ahead of...
Israel’s endgame for tormented Gaza is political and physical erasure
COMMENTARY: By Nour Odeh
There was faint hope that efforts to achieve a ceasefire deal in Gaza would succeed. That hope is now all but...
Trump signs ‘deeply dangerous’ order to fast-track deep sea mining
RNZ Pacific
An ocean conservation non-profit has condemned the United States President's latest executive order aimed at boosting the deep sea mining industry.
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