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The world owes Cuba a debt – and the US a...
COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose
In 2015, the John Key government announced a cooperation agreement that would see NZ Aid pay for Cuban doctors to be...
Health services for US veterans from Freely Associated States remain elusive
By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor/RNZ Pacific correspondent
Securing essential healthcare services for US military veterans from three North Pacific nations remains a persistent...
Haka, waiata welcome for NZ’s Gaza flotilla activists after brutal ordeal...
Asia Pacific Report
An emotional and inspiring welcome greeted two of Aotearoa New Zealand's three Gaza Sumud Flotilla humanitarian activists who arrived home today after...
Andy Worthington: The startling severity of Gaza flotilla activists’ rape allegations
COMMENTARY: By Andy Worthington
It’s a sign of Israel’s swaggering sense of impunity, and of the grotesque depravity at the heart of their notions of...
Pesta Babi doco stirs West Papuan development debates and ‘crackdown’
Asia Pacific Report
Pesta Babi (Pig feast), the controversial Papuan documentary film critical of a major development project impacting on the environment in the southeastern...
Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Nadda Osman
Activists freed from Israeli detention following the interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla have reported that they were subjected to...
Chambers backs Pacific police leaders confronting corruption challenges amid drug trade...
By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist
New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers says Pacific Island nations are addressing corruption among their police and customs officials.
Chambers...
‘It’s worse for Palestinians,’ says Australian flotilla activist about Israeli torture
Michael West Media
Australian activist Zack Schofield says he was illegally detained by the Israeli military after the Global Sumud Flotilla was intercepted in international...
Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they...
COMMENTARY: By Shameen Suleman
Britain. France. Canada. Italy. Spain. Belgium. The Netherlands. Poland. Australia. New Zealand . . . The European Union. The United Nations...
Israel’s $700m Hasbara fiasco – how Ben-Gvir’s flotilla abuse video stirred...
ANALYSIS: By Mohammad Mansour
A video posted by Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, in which he is seen taunting abducted flotilla activists who...
Pacific concerns about militarisation – and NZ’s role as part of...
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
New Zealand's government is increasingly eager to promote the buy-in of Pacific nations for closer Defence Force integration...
Spanish MEP accuses EU of failure to act over Israeli ‘kidnapping,...
By Beyza Binnur Donmez in Strasbourg
Spanish Member of the European Parliament Irene Montero has accused the European Union (EU) of failing to protect European...
French National Assembly allows ‘native’ voters to take part in local...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
The French National Assembly has voted to allow "native" voters to take part in New Caledonia's...
Nauru orders public servants, govt bodies to follow ‘One China’ policy
RNZ Pacific
Nauru's government has issued a directive to all public servants and employees of state-owned enterprises in-country and abroad to adhere to the "One...
Peters condemns Israeli minister over flotilla video as 3 Kiwis detained
By Niva Chittock, RNZ WorldWatch presenter/producer
New Zealand has joined international condemnation of Israel's far-right national security minister, even summoning the Israeli ambassador to convey...
Peace Action demands NZ summon Israeli ambassador over brutal action against...
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand needs to summon Israeli ambassador to protest over the illegal and brutal treatment of Global Sumud Flotilla humanitarian aid activists...
87+ Gaza aid flotilla activists abducted by Israel now on hunger...
Asia Pacific Report
At least 87 people kidnapped by Israeli forces from a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza have begun a hunger strike, say...
Israel is ‘doing a Ukraine’ in Lebanon but world stays silent,...
Asia Pacific Report
Celebrated Italian war reporter Francesca Mannocchi has condemned the double standard over Israel's war mongering.
“What Israel is doing in southern Lebanon is,...
Solve ‘genocide embassy’ issue – expel Israeli ambassador, says PSNA
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has called on the New Zealand government to resolve a tenancy controversy over the Israeli embassy...
Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global...
Asia Pacific Report
Three New Zealanders are being illegally held hostage by the Israeli military after security forces boarded more than 50 boats of the...



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