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Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative
COMMENTARY: By Refaat Ibrahim
"If words shape our consciousness, then the media holds the keys to minds."
This sentence is not merely a metaphor, but a...
Palestine Action – terrorists or the real heroes of our time?
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Nobody has a bad word to say about the French Resistance in the Second World War, right? Who would criticise a...
Police protection for New Caledonian politicians following death threats
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonian politicians who inked their commitment to a deal with France last weekend will be...
12 countries agree to confront Israel collectively over Gaza after Bogotá...
ANALYSIS: By Mick Hall
Collective measures to confront Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people have been agreed by 12 nations after an emergency summit of...
David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront...
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves presenter/producer, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor
The New Zealand government needs to do more for its Pacific...
Bougainville election: More than 400 candidates vie for parliament
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
More than 400 candidates have put their hands up to contest the Bougainville general election in September, hoping...
UN expert advocates peacekeeper path to break Israel’s siege on Gaza
COMMENTARY: By Bruce King
Almost two months ago, a UN special rapporteur, Dr Michael Fakhri, penned an opinion article in The Guardian newspaper warning that...
Fiji govt offers NZ$1.5m settlement to former anti-corruption head for ruined...
By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior reporter
The Fiji government looks set to pay around NZ$1.5 million in damages to the disgraced former head of...
Luxon and Peters to miss Cook Islands’ 60th Constitution Day celebrations
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
New Zealand will not send top government representation to the Cook Islands for its 60th Constitution Day celebrations in...
Israeli settlers beat to death 2 Palestinians in latest lynchings
BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied West Bank
Two young Palestinians were beaten to death on their land by Israeli settlers in the occupied...
New Caledonia’s political parties commit to ‘historic’ statehood deal
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's pro-and-anti-independence parties have committed to an "historic" deal over the future political status of...
Twyford praises NFIP lead, calls for inspired peace and regionalism
Asia Pacific Report
An opposition Labour Party MP today paid tribute to the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) movement, saying it should inspire Aotearoa...
NFIP activists, advocates to open nuclear-free Pacific exhibition
Asia Pacific Report
Nuclear-free and independent Pacific advocates are treating Aucklanders to a lively week-long exhibition dedicated to the struggle for nuclear justice in the...
Author condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests...
Asia Pacific Report
A journalist who was on the Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap last night condemned France for its “callous” attack of an environmental...
‘Storm clouds are gathering’: 40 years on from the bombing of...
From the prologue of the 40th anniversary edition of David Robie’s seminal book on the Rainbow Warrior’s last voyage, former New Zealand prime minister...
Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on
SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News
Forty years ago today, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship Rainbow Warrior...
Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow...
By Aui'a Vaimaila Leatinu'u of PMN News
I didn’t know much about the surrounding context of the infamous Rainbow Warrior bombing 40 years ago on...
Author David Robie tells of outrage over sinking of the Rainbow...
RNZ News Nights
Tomorrow marks 40 years since the bombing and sinking of the Rainbow Warrior -- a moment that changed the course of New...
Academic slams NZ government over ‘compromised’ foreign policy
Asia Pacific Report
A prominent academic has criticised the New Zealand coalition government for compromising the country's traditional commitment to upholding an international rules-based order...
Bougainville election process begins as writs issued for September poll
RNZ Pacific
The Bougainville election process begins today with the issuance of the writs yesterday.
Nominations open Tuesday, July 8, and close on Thursday, July 10.
Voting...
NZDF not considering recruiting personnel from Pacific nations
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is not considering recruiting personnel from across the Pacific as talk continues of...
The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French secret agents in Auckland harbour on 10...