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By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia's pro-independence front, the FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front), has formally confirmed its...

ANALYSIS: By John Hobbs Aotearoa New Zealand once earned praise for its “principled” and “independent” foreign policy. Think nuclear-free Pacific, for example. Yet that reputation doesn’t...

Asia Pacific Report It was a bit like the old days -- the heyday of Aotearoa New Zealand’s nuclear-free movement in the 1980s, leading up...

By Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira, RNZ Māori news journalist in Parliament New Zealand's Prime Minister says the war in Gaza is "utterly appalling" and Israeil Prime Minister...

By Niva Chittock, RNZ News WorldWatch presenter/producer Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark says she has witnessed Israel deliberately obstructing life-saving humanitarian aid into...

By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor New Zealand Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick has been ejected from Parliament's debating chamber and told to...

RNZ Pacific Waves In Aotearoa, a Pacific advocate for youth homelessness says the country must address poverty and systemic inequities to fix the housing affordability...

Asia Pacific Report A leading advocacy group supporting Palerstine has called on the government to follow Germany’s lead and suspend New Zealand military support for...

By Emma Page Greenpeace says moves to weaken ocean protection through dodgy fisheries “reforms” will be met with strong opposition, as Oceans and Fisheries Minister...

By Russell Palmer, RNZ News political reporter The prime minister has announced a new High Commission building in Papua New Guinea and an economic support...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Rarotonga The Cook Islands has no intention of leaving its special relationship with New Zealand, says Prime Minister...

ANALYSIS: By Ilan Noy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington The words and pictures documenting the famine in the Gaza strip are horrifying. The...

By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor/RNZ Pacific correspondent Leaders of the three Pacific nations with diplomatic ties to Taiwan are united in a message...

COMMENTARY:  By Eugene Doyle The world’s most important hostage -- must be released. The powerful Western countries have signalled that in the face of the...

By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist New Zealand's foreign minister says Cook Islanders are free to choose whether their country continues in free association...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Rarotonga The Cook Islands Secretary of Culture Emile Kairua says people in his country are getting complacent about...

Three times this year the world has been close to nuclear catastrophe of one form or another -- the India–Pakistan conflict, the ongoing Ukraine–Russia...

Asia Pacific Report WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was among the tens of thousands of protesters in Australia staging a "humanitarians for Gaza" march today across...

Asia Pacific Report A former senior UN aid official has condemned the bloodshed at the notorious US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid food depots,...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor A former New Caledonia Congress president says there are "not enough" benefits for Kanaks in a new "draft"...

By Torika Tokalau, Local Democracy Reporter The sisters running Auckland's first authentic Polynesian show for tourists say it's not just for visitors, but also to...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific Desk New Caledonia's oldest pro-independence party, the Union Calédonienne (UC), has officially rejected a political agreement on...