Asia Pacific Report The planning and policy committee of New Zealand's largest city today voted decisively to investigate sanctioning companies listed by the UN Human...

COMMENTARY: By Kaveh As an Iranian living in New Zealand, I wake up every morning to the quiet green hills and the calm sea, but...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean This US naval blockade is meant to strangle the Iranian economy by preventing it from exporting oil -- the economic lifeline...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: Ship traffic has halted again in the Strait of Hormuz after President Trump ordered the US military to begin a naval...

Asia Pacific Report A group of 39 boats known as the Global Sumud Flotilla has set sail from Barcelona to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza,...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The Territorial Assembly of French Polynesia has for the first time shown a new configuration during...

COMMENTARY: By Bonface Chisutia On the night of February 28, the Israel-US airstrike killed his father, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, his wife, his brother-in-law...

IRNA News Agency When news reports first indicated that US Vice-President JD Vance was going to lead the Americans in the negotiations with Iran, the...

RNZ Pacific Cyclone Maila has been downgraded to a tropical low but has caused widespread damage in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. Ten people were...

Pacific Media Watch Iran's ambassador has criticised New Zealand's failure to condemn the US and Israeli strikes on Iran as damaging the relationship between the...

RNZ News Weather warnings in New Zealand's North Island are starting to lift, as Tropical Cyclone Vaianu tracks away from the country. Red and orange wind...

Asia Pacific Report Thousands of protesters took part in the “Stop Wars Aotearoa” rallies across New Zealand today, calling for an end to the illegal...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: As the US and Iran prepared to hold ceasefire talks in Pakistan today, Israel is continuing to bomb Lebanon. The death...

To make lasting peace in the Middle East, the US must end its blank cheque to Israel’s perpetual wars and join with the rest...

RNZ News Severe weather warnings are set to come into place this weekend as Cyclone Vaianu bears down on New Zealand. Coromandel and parts of the...

COMMENTARY: By Robert Reich An hour before Trump said he’d cause the death of a “whole civilisation” if Iran didn’t open the strait of Hormuz,...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor Papua New Guinea's Defence Minister Dr Billy Joseph has stepped aside to allow investigations into allegations he interfered...

Pacific Media Watch Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah has been killed in an Israeli drone strike in the Gaza Strip, the Qatari television news channel...

COMMENTARY: By Trita Parsi Yesterday began with Donald Trump issuing genocidal threats against Iran on social media and ended -- just ten hours later --...

COMMENTARY: By Yanis Varoufakis Having launched an illegal, destructive war that brutally struck the entire planet’s economy (and confirmed once again Europe’s combination of irrelevance...