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By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The I-Kiribati people will go to the polls for the first round of voting today. Ballots are expected to...

By Lice Movono and Stephen Dziedzic of ABC Pacific Beat Fiji's Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, says he will "apologise" to fellow Melanesian leaders later this...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle   Iran may be about to launch a "proper" missile strike on Israel for the first time ever -- in retaliation for...

By Amit Sarwal The Paris Olympics might be over, but in a stunning turn of events on the last weekend Australian breakdancing champion Rachael Gunn,...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Pacific foreign ministers have given their nod of approval for United States territories Guam and American Samoa to be...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor Vanuatu is leaning on Aotearoa's medicinal cannabis production expertise in an effort to prop up its own market. While...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Suva The high-level Pacific mission to New Caledonia will be a three person-led delegation and it is still...

Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a large rally in the heart of New Zealand's largest city today strongly condemned Israel's indiscriminate killing of Palestinian children...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor France has approved a high-level Pacific "fact-finding mission" to New Caledonia to gather information from all sides involved...

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...

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...

"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:...

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...

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...

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist in Guam The Chamorros are the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands -- politically divided between Guam and the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Since the arrival of Zionism in Palestine, the impulse of the Palestinians has not been about violence or revenge. The impulse remains the return...

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...

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...