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NZ arms company building linked to Gaza genocide, claim peace activists
SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England
Peace activists who scaled the roof an an international weapons company operating from Christchurch yesterday say the company links New...
‘Back off AUKUS’, Greens MP Tuiono warns NZ in wake of...
Asia Pacific Report
The Green Party has called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to rule out Aotearoa New Zealand joining the AUKUS military technical pact...
NZ must protest Israel’s latest ‘weasel out’ war crime cutting humanitarian...
Asia Pacific Report
One of the leading Palestinian solidarity groups in Aotearoa New Zealand has demanded that the government condemn Israel’s cutting off of all...
French minister wraps up key talks in New Caledonia, returning late...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls left New Caledonia at the weekend after a one-week stay...
Nine more arrested in PNG for brutal kidnap, rape and murder...
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
Content warning: This story discusses rape and violence.
Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested nine more men...
In siding with Russia over Ukraine, Trump is not putting America...
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Sussex, Australian National University
Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself...
Political analyst hopes NZ, Australia will ‘step up’ over USAID cuts...
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
The Trump administration's decision to eliminate more than 90 percent of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) funding...
Activists scale NZ building in protest against global weapons company
By Kate Green , RNZ News reporter
Protesters have scaled the building of an international weapons company in Rolleston, Christchurch, in resistance to it establishing...
Hamas accuses Israel of ‘blackmail’ over aid, demands end of US...
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has accused Israel of "blackmail" over aid for Gaza and urged the US government to act more...
Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan...
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin
Last week, on 26 February 2025, President Prabowo Subianto officially launched Indonesia’s first bullion banks, marking a significant shift in the...
Palestine asks ICJ for advisory opinion on illegal occupier Israel’s obligations
Asia Pacific Report
The State of Palestine has submitted a written plea to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) asking it for an advisory opinion...
Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear...
Asia Pacific Report
In the year marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret agents and 71 years since the...
Tongan advocates condemn Treaty Principles Bill, slam colonisation
By Khalia Strong of Pacific Media Network
Tongan community leaders and artists in New Zealand have criticised the Treaty Principles Bill while highlighting the ongoing...
Cook Islands government to seek update on China’s naval exercises
By Talaia Mika of the Cook Islands News
As concerns continue to emerge over China's "unusual" naval exercises in the Tasman Sea, raising eyebrows from...
Relatives of slain PNG police officer block Highlands Highway over unresolved...
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
The family of a Papua New Guinea police constable, killed in an ambush last month, has blocked a...
Cook Islands needs to ‘stand on our own two feet,’ says...
RNZ Pacific
Prime Minister Mark Brown has survived a motion in the Cook Islands Parliament aimed at ousting his government, the second Pacific Island leader...
Jewish Council slams Australian universities’ ‘dangerous, politicised’ antisemitism definition
Asia Pacific Report
An independent Jewish body has condemned the move by Australia’s 39 universities to endorse a "dangerous and politicised" definition of antisemitism which...
J’accuse!… the Jew who accuses his fellow Jews of being antisemites
A rally on the steps of the Victorian Parliament under the banner of Jews for a Free Palestine was arranged for Sunday, February 9....
PNG govt’s latest ID plan unlikely to be achieved, says academic
RNZ Pacific
The Papua New Guinea government wants to have everyone on their National Identity (NID) card system by the country's 50th anniversary on 16...
Barred European Union politician brands Israel as ‘a rogue state’
Asia Pacific Report
Israel has now banned another European Union parliamentarian from entering the country, reports Al Jazeera.
The government gave no reasons why Lynn Boylan,...
Samoan Prime Minister Fiame survives in resounding no-confidence vote
By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor
Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa has survived a vote of no confidence after weeks of political turmoil.
In...
Valls faces Kanak ‘first people’ clash with loyalists over independence talks
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls' first two days in New Caledonia have been marred by...