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Pryde ‘may have to wait’ over tribunal report, says Fiji President’s...
By Cheerieann Wilson in Suva
Fiji's Office of the President has confirmed that the Tribunal’s report on allegations of misconduct against suspended Director of Public...
Virgin Australia confirms ‘serious security incident’ with crew in Fiji
By Anish Chand in Suva
Virgin Australia has confirmed a “serious security incident” with its flight crew members who were in Fiji on New Year's...
New Caledonia political crisis costs one third of multi-million French package
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
An emergency 231 million euro (NZ$428 million) French aid package for New Caledonia has been reduced...
A ‘genocidal project’ – Dr Abu-Sittah on Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s...
Democracy Now!
Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed that close to 46,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s ongoing assault, but Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah estimates the...
Pacific leaders remember Jimmy Carter’s ‘pivotal role’ for CNMI
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent
The Governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas has paid tribute to former...
Palestine protest group condemns NZ’s ‘normalisation of apartheid’ – Israeli tennis...
Asia Pacific Report
A Palestine solidarity group has protested over the participation of Israeli tennis player Lina Glushko in New Zealand's ASB Tennis Classic in...
Hui, protests, kotahitanga, and a new Kuini – a historic year...
By Ella Stewart, (Ngāpuhi, Te Māhurehure, Ngāti Manu), RNZ longform journalist, Te Ao Māori
On a sticky day in January, dozens of nannies and aunties...
Valls hopes to tackle New Caledonia in Rocard-style ‘spirit of dialogue’
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Overseas Minister Manuel Valls, who was appointed yesterday as part of the new French government...
Fiji’s PM dismisses Tabuya as Minister for Women and Children
RNZ Pacific
Fiji MP Lynda Tabuya has been dismissed as the country's Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection.
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka said in a...
‘Bloc’ resignation over riots recovery plan topples New Caledonia’s government
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent, French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's territorial government has been toppled on Christmas Eve, due to a mass resignation within...
Cardinal David slams Israel, says Jesus would have been born in...
By Victor Barreiro Jr in Manila
Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, bishop of Kalookan, has condemned the state of Israel on Christmas Eve for its relentless...
Gaza Christians pray for end of Israeli war’s ‘death and destruction’
Asia Pacific Report
Silent Night is a well-known Christmas carol that tells of a peaceful and silent night in Bethlehem, referring to the first Christmas...
NZ’s Z Energy renames stations with ‘correct’ kupu
By Emma Andrews, Henare te Ua Māori Journalism Intern at RNZ News
The New Zealand fuel company Z Energy is swapping out street names for...
Vanuatu quake: Warnings as bad weather threat looms for Port Vila
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
New Zealand's Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) says impending bad weather for Port Vila is now the most significant...
Quake-shocked New Caledonian children repatriated from Vanuatu
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Twenty New Caledonian children who suffered the shock of Port Vila's 7.3 magnitude earthquake have been...
Israeli-American historian describes attacks on Gaza as ‘war of annihilation’
Asia Pacific Report
“It looks like Hiroshima. It looks like Germany at the end of World War Two,” says an Israeli-American historian and professor of...
NZ govt plans to make ‘heavy handed’ change to free speech...
By John Gerritsen, RNZ News education correspondent
The New Zealand government coalition is tweaking university regulations to curb what it says is an increasingly...
Fiji pro-Palestine nativity scene exposes Gaza as ‘hell on earth’ at...
Asia Pacific Report
Fiji activists have recreated the nativity scene at a solidarity for Palestine gathering in Fiji's capital Suva just days before Christmas.
The Fiji...
Vanuatu quake: ‘Our shop was flattened like a deck of cards’
By 1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver and 1News reporters
A number of Kiwis have been successfully evacuated from Vanuatu after a devastating earthquake shook the...
Vanuatu quake: Rescue teams continue Port Vila hunt for survivors
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific news editor
There are conflicting reports of the official death toll from this week's massive earthquake in Vanuatu as rescue...
West and media are ‘erasing’ Palestinian history, say critics
Asia Pacific Report
Palestinian history is "deliberately ignored" and is being effectively "erased" as part of Western news media narratives, while establishment forces work to...
Vanuatu quake: Hospitals under pressure as death, damage toll grows
By Harry Pearl of BenarNews
Vanuatu is taking stock of damage from a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake that has killed at least 14 people and...