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Auckland council votes to probe sanctioning Israel over war crimes
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...
Why Iran will never break – and Iranians will decide their...
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...
Why Trump’s naval blockade to ‘strangle’ Iran is a joke
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
This US naval blockade is meant to strangle the Iranian economy by preventing it from exporting oil -- the economic lifeline...
Iran threatens retaliation over Gulf ‘piracy’ in Trump’s naval blockade
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...
Global Sumud Flotilla heads from Barcelona to break Gaza blockade
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,...
French Polynesia’s legislature shows new shape, more divisions
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...
What I would do if I was Mojtaba Khamenei – a...
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...
Why Vance couldn’t stop the Trump train wreck – an Iranian...
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...
Ten dead in Bougainville amid Cyclone Maila aftermath
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...
Iranian envoy slams ‘rule of the jungle’ in criticism of NZ...
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...
Cyclone Vaianu: Damaging winds, heavy rain hit NZ’s North Island
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...
Protesters rally across Aotearoa in condemnation of Israel, US ‘warmongering’ and...
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...
‘Ten minutes of terror’ – Lebanon death toll tops 300 from...
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...
Ending Israel’s war on peace – Iran’s 10-point proposal is serious
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...
Cyclone Vaianu: First impacts could be felt Saturday amid severe NZ...
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...
Robert Reich: Lessons on how to defeat Donald Trump every time
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,...
PNG defence minister steps aside amid army recruitment controversy
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...
‘Heinous’ Israeli attack kills Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah in genocidal...
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...
What on earth just happened? Trump, Iran, and the unlikely ceasefire
COMMENTARY: By Trita Parsi
Yesterday began with Donald Trump issuing genocidal threats against Iran on social media and ended -- just ten hours later --...
How Trump’s White House demands as prerequisites for stopping bombings bit...
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...













































