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Indonesian human rights groups seek independent probe of NZ pilot’s death...
By Victor Mambor in Jayapura and Pizaro Gozali Idrus in Jakarta
Indonesian human rights groups have called for an independent investigation into the death of...
Advocate slams NZ snub of Nagasaki peace tribute as ‘outrageous’
By Mick Hall
A leading peace campaigner is calling Aotearoa New Zealand’s decision to stay away from a peace event in Nagasaki paying tribute to...
Jonathan Cook: Nothing’s changed since 1948 – except now Israel’s excuses...
"We have been lied to for decades about the creation of Israel. It was born in sin, and it continues to live in sin."
COMMENTARY:...
France ‘decides who enters’ New Caledonia: French diplomat on Pacific leaders...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
France is "checking" whether a high-level mission to New Caledonia will be possible prior to or after the Pacific...
Call for collective global action over ‘horrific’ Israeli crimes against Palestinian...
COMMENTARY: By Qadura Fares
On August 3, last Saturday, prisoner rights institutions and Palestinians all around the world were standing in solidarity with Gaza and...
‘It sucks’: Guam’s complex indigenous Chamorro people relationship with US
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist in Guam
The Chamorros are the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands -- politically divided between Guam and the...
OPM blames Indonesia over tragic death of NZ helicopter pilot
Asia Pacific Report
The West Papuan resistance movement OPM has blamed the tragic death of a New Zealand helicopter pilot in a remote part of...
French Polynesia’s homeboy ‘King of Teahupo’o’ wins Olympic surf gold
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Polynesia's homeboy Kauli Vaast has won the Olympic gold medal in the men's shortboard finals...
The Fiji Times: Democracy – ‘by the skin of its teeth’
EDITORIAL: By Fred Wesley, editor-in-chief of The Fiji Times
Australian constitutional law expert Professor Anthony Regan believes Fiji's Coalition government came into power “by the...
What are the issues facing Kiribati as it prepares for elections?
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
On Wednesday next week, the people of Kiribati go to the polls in the first of two votes...
Ilan Pappé: To end Gaza genocide, uproot the source of all...
Since the arrival of Zionism in Palestine, the impulse of the Palestinians has not been about violence or revenge. The impulse remains the return...
NZ tells citizens to leave Iran and Lebanon now ‘while options...
RNZ News
The coalition government is telling New Zealanders in Iran and Lebanon to leave immediately as tensions rise in the Middle East.
"The New Zealand...
New head of UN deep-sea mining regulator vows to restore neutrality
SPECIAL REPORT: By Stephen Wright of BenarNews
Promises of "accountability and transparency" in deep-sea mining has seen a tsunami-size vote by nations on Friday for...
Israel accused of being a ‘rogue state’ trying to destabilise Middle...
Asia Pacific Report
Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian political leader and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, says Israel’s “gangster style...
Turkey-based Freedom Flotilla aid ships put ‘on hold’ but Handala still...
Asia Pacific Report
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has told supporters that the "Break the Siege" aid project for besieged Gaza from Turkey has been put...
Promoting peace and stability in the Middle East by unconditionally backing...
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
President Biden — if you feel like pretending Biden is still serving as President and still making the decisions in the White House — has...
Lawsuit promises justice for Rio Tinto’s mining disaster in Bougainville –...
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: By Aubrey Belford of the OCCRP
High in the forested mountains of Papua New Guinea's Bougainville Island lies an abandoned, kilometer-wide crater cut...
Nations join ranks to delay deep-sea mining approval by UN regulator
SPECIAL REPORT: By Stephen Wright in Kingston, Jamaica
The obscure UN organisation attempting to set rules for the exploitation of deep-sea metals is facing a...
Why Israel assassinated Haniyeh – desperation over Gaza failure
ANALYSIS: By Ramzy Baroud
Israel’s assassination of the head of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, on yesterday is part of Tel Aviv’s...
NZME cops criticism after using AI to write rugby editorial
RNZ News
Media publisher NZME has come under fire for admitting it used artificial intelligence to create editorials that ran in the Weekend Herald and...
Kanak great chief resigns from New Caledonia’s customary Senate
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
A Kanak great chief has announced his resignation from New Caledonia's customary Senate.
Hippolyte Sinewami Htamumu once...
Tuvalu joins growing Pacific tide of opposition to deep-sea mining
Asia Pacific Report
Tuvalu has added its voice to the growing tide in the Pacific against deep sea mining, highlighting the momentum against this destructive...