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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...
‘Our future looks secure’, says Puna on Pacific Islands Forum unity
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Regional leaders will meet this week at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Special Leaders Retreat in Fiji.
"We have come...
Wenda calls on West Papuan rebels to release kidnapped NZ pilot
RNZ Pacific
A West Papuan independence movement leader, Benny Wenda, says the release of New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens held hostage by armed rebels is...
Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched
REVIEW: By Jenny Nicholls
Peacemonger is a collection of essays about the much travelled Aotearoa peace activist and researcher Owen Wilkes, who died in May...
Armed group seize Australian professor, 3 PNG researchers hostage, reports ABC
Asia Pacific Report
An armed group has taken an Australian professor and three colleagues hostage in a remote region of Papua New Guinea, reports ABC...
Cyclone Gabrielle: Hipkins announces recovery taskforce, $50m support
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and Finance Minister Grant Robertson have announced a $50 million support package to provide immediate relief for...
Puma Energy shuts down PNG nationwide – seeks US$100m to resume...
PNG Post-Courier
Puma Energy has shut down its operations nationwide in Papua New Guinea while Prime Minister James Marape leaves overseas again to Fiji as...
Cyclone Gabrielle: Historic shot tower to be demolished as storm risk
RNZ News
The historic shot tower in Aotearoa New Zealand's Auckland suburb of Mt Eden which caused concern that it could fall during the worst...
Cyclone Gabrielle: Lives ‘turned upside down . . . destroyed’, says...
RNZ News
Almost 30,000 homes have no power and major supply chains have been disrupted in Aotearoa New Zealand -- and Prime Minister Chris Hipkins...




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