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Cyclone Gabrielle: Police report number of uncontactable people down to single...
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand police report that the number of people cited as uncontactable following Cyclone Gabrielle has dropped to eight -- down from 13...
Pacific leaders commit to Forum reforms and ‘family unity’
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific digital and social media journalist
The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) is now "a family...
Te Whānau-a-Apanui take Te Matatini kapa haka title 2023
RNZ News Te Ao Māori
Te Kapa Haka o Te Whānau-a-Apanui from Mātaatua have been crowned Te Matatini champions for the third time in Aotearoa...
West Papua: ‘We’re proud Fijians today’ over Rabuka support
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva
"We are proud Fijians and Melanesians today" -- Fiji Council of Social Services executive director Vani Catanasiga said this in...
Cyclone Gabrielle: Tornado hits Waihi Beach amid more wild weather in...
RNZ News
A tornado has torn through New Zealand's Bay of Plenty settlement of Waihi Beach ripping roofs off houses and cutting power to nearly...
FLNKS congress held ahead of ‘high stakes’ future talks with France
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement is holding its congress this weekend to prepare its position for the bilateral talks scheduled with French Interior...
Ukraine a year on – how the invasion changed NZ foreign...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
One year to the day since Russian tanks ran over the Ukraine border -- and over the UN...
PNG’s Marape on the Mt Bosavi hostages: ‘Free them all’
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
Prime Minister James Marape has urged armed captors to free the remaining four hostages which includes an Australian-based New...
Cyclone Gabrielle: More heavy rain for NZ’s disaster-hit northern regions
RNZ News
New Zealand civil defence staff have sent out text alerts to residents in North and West Auckland today to avoid unecessary travel as...
Rabuka backs call for West Papuan independence group to fully join...
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific digital and social media journalist, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka is the first Fijian...
NZ government ‘intervened’ to stop operation to save pilot, says Jakarta
RNZ Pacific
Indonesian security forces were about to launch a rescue operation for a pilot held hostage in Papua before New Zealand intervened, reports ABC...
PNG’s warlords ‘dangerous’ and ‘outgun police’, warns Tomuriesa
The National in Port Moresby
Warlords and armed bandits pose a threat to Papua New Guinea's national security and must be destroyed, says Deputy Opposition...
Priority with ‘greedy’ kidnappers is to return captives to families, says...
PNG Post-Courier
As day five dawned in Papua New Guinea's kidnapping drama, the family of one of the four hostages captives -- one of three...
Wenda hopes to get plight of West Papuan people to PIF...
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva
Recognising Indonesia’s sovereignty is one thing.
However, failing to allow West Papuans a seat at regional discussion tables like the Pacific...
Solidarity medical aid convoy breaches blockade and says: ‘Gaza isn’t alone’
Dr Essam Youssef visits the ambulance in Gaza sponsored by Freedom Flotilla Campaigns. The ambulance is used by the Benevolent Society for People with...
Cyclone Gabrielle: New weather warnings for flood-hit NZ regions
RNZ News
New Zealand's MetService has issued an orange warning meaning heavy rain is on the way for cyclone-hit Hawke's Bay.
From now through until 10am...
PNG gunmen free one of 3 women held captive, reports Post-Courier
PNG Post-Courier
The Post-Courier has exclusively been advised of the release of one of the women held captive by armed men in the Bosavi mountains,...
Cyclone Gabrielle: Time to invest in natives in response to devastating...
ANALYSIS: By David Norton, University of Canterbury
During Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle the poor management of exotic plantations in Aotearoa New Zealand -- primarily pine...
Failure to free PNG hostages could cost captors ‘their lives’, ...
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinean security forces have been authorised to use the full force of the law to secure the four captives being held...
Cyclone Gabrielle: Hundreds more NZ unaccounted for now located
RNZ News
A further 300 people listed as "uncontactable" in New Zealand in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle have been found.
About 800 people in Hawke's...
Cyclone Gabrielle: Help for more than 400 evacuated Pacific RSE workers
RNZ Pacific
More than 400 workers from the Pacific evacuated to a Napier church during Cyclone Gabrielle should be able to return to more permanent...
PNG police negotiators try to win freedom for hostage researchers
PNG Post-Courier
An Australian-based anthropology professor and three Papua New Guinean women researchers are being held captive inside the jungles of the Southern Highlands after...