By Stefan Armbruster and Jennifer Enosa for the Torres News Australia is seeking observer status at the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) but has not committed...

By RNZ Pacific reporters Naoero, formerly known as Nauru, has opened its embassy in Jerusalem, becoming the third Pacific Island nation to do so. Naoero's Vice-President...

Te Ao Māori News A delegation of Māori leaders visiting Israel under the banner of "business and innovation" faces public criticism over its timing and...

ANALYSIS: By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific On the second day of the Pacific Islands Forum leaders' meeting in Palau, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese...

By Rashika Kumar in Suva Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka is calling on Fijians to use their freedom of expression responsibly, stressing that people can disagree...

Australia's Labor and the Coalition have voted down a Greens amendment to strip tax breaks from charities funding illegal Israeli settlements and the IDF....

By Russell Palmer of RNZ Labour is calling the government's stance on Israel an "embarrassment" to the country, and says it is failing to meet...

Asia Pacific Report A pro-Palestine national advocacy and protest group has accused New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs as being "derelict in its duties" if...

Pacific Media Watch Angered by the lack of full justice nearly a decade after the assassination of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, Reporters Without...

By Kaya Selby and Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific An Australian senator says the release of terms for a controversial deportation deal between Australia and...

Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Forum of New Zealand has called on the New Zealand government to follow France, the UK, Canada and nine other...

RNZ News Foreign Minister Winston Peters says New Zealand joins its international partners calling on Israel to end the expansion of illegal settlements in the...

ANALYSIS: By Jacqueline Peel and Wesley Morgan For more than a decade, the world has been trying to limit global warming to 1.5°C. That’s no longer...

ANALYSIS: By Antonia Bhagwan in Suva The Pacific may have moved beyond the worst of the covid-19 pandemic, but its economic consequences continue to weigh...

Asia Pacific Report A national pro-Palestine solidarity movement has condemned a spate of "radicalised" tyre slashing vandalism and other violent attacks by Israeli supporters. The most...

By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific A leading West Papua pro-independence group has questioned Indonesia's assertion that a proposed visit by the United Nations High...

COMMENTARY: By Maher Nazzal of the Palestine Forum of New Zealand There is a deeply painful connection between Aotearoa New Zealand and the Gaza War...

ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin The 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting in Koror, Palau, last week has pushed West Papua back to the centre of...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: A federal judge has ruled the Trump administration has violated the constitutional rights of international students in seeking to deport them...

By Susana Suisuiki of RNZ Pacific For 20 years, West Papuan activist Paula Makabory has not set foot in her ancestral homeland. Her family still...