New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto
While Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian children in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied...
COP30: ‘Ego manoeuvring’ behind scenes at UN climate talks, says Pacific...
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
"Political and ego manoeuvring" is happening behind the scenes at COP30 in Brazil, as Australia and Türkiye wrestle to...
Tribute to Bob Howarth: He touched the Pacific in ways words...
Bob Howarth
6 November 1944-13 November 2025
OBITUARY: By Robert Luke Iroga, editor and publisher of Solomon Business Magazine
In June 2000, I travelled to Port...
Palau’s leader urges stronger climate action after New Zealand lowers methane...
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Palau's leader says the world needs to be working toward reducing emissions and "not dropping targets", in response to...
Saige England: if we want to save the planet we need...
As the world contemplates action over climate crisis at COP30 in Brazil, author Saige England writes that we need to recognise that we don’t...
Growing local opposition to seabed mining decision has forced Cook Islands...
Asia Pacific Report
Greenpeace has heralded the Cook Islands delay on a decision over whether seabed mining can go ahead until at least 2032 as...
The 60+ UN member states complicit with the Gaza genocide –...
UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese talks to journalist Chris Hedges about her new report that examines how 60+ countries are complicit in...
Timor-Leste’s Xanana Gusmão pays tribute to journalist Robert Domm over independence...
Pacific Media Watch
Timor-Leste Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão has paid tribute to the “courageous and determined” contribution of Australian journalist Robert Domm to...
French Overseas Minister holds marathon political talks in New Caledonia
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou's first visit to New Caledonia is marked by marathon political...
Israeli soldiers killed civilians, aid seekers in Gaza free-for-all ‘at wish...
Middle East Monitor
Israeli soldiers have revealed that Palestinian civilians were killed inside Gaza in a free-for-all at the wish of army officers amid a...
Israel thanks Fiji and PNG for opening Jerusalem embassies, UN support
RNZ Pacific
An Israeli minister touring the Pacific to discuss defence and cooperation says Fiji and Papua New Guinea are “great friends”.
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister...
80 Camarines Norte barangays isolated after Typhoon Uwan hits Philippines
By Vince Angelo Ferreras in Daet, Philippines
Several barangays in Camarines Norte were heavily battered by the powerful winds and rains from Typhoon Uwan --...
COP30: Pacific nations call for world to act as 1.5C threshold...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor, and Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Pacific nations are at the world's biggest climate talks making the familiar...
Israeli forces kill 44 journalists inside Gaza displacement tents, says report
Pacific Media Watch
The Freedoms Committee of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate says the Israeli occupation forces have killed 44 Palestinian journalists inside displacement tents in...
NZ’s Te Pāti Māori purge fails to end the party war
ANALYSIS: By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor
As the Iwi Chairs Forum fought fruitlessly to keep Te Pāti Māori together last week, spokesperson...
New Pacific Media journal launched in APMN and USP partnership
Asia Pacific Media Network
Pacific Media, a new regional research journal, made its debut today with a collection of papers on issues challenging the future,...
Pacific civil society warn of growing militarisation and mining pressure on...
RNZ Pacific
Pacific civil society groups say 2025 has been a big year for the ocean.
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) representative...
Oceania ‘voice’ Jacinda Ardern in open letter climate crisis plea in...
Asia Pacific Report
In an open letter released at the Belém Climate Summit, special envoys for strategic regions have expressed their support for the COP30...
‘Profound distrust’ in France, says Pacific people’s mission report calling for...
Asia Pacific Report
A Pacific people's mission to Kanaky New Caledonia was repeatedly confronted with a "profound sense of distrust" in the French state's role...
Gaza’s water supply turns poisonous as Israel’s genocide leaves toxic legacy
As the homes of Gaza’s families lie in ruins, its farmlands and water supply now also pose lethal risks in environmental and health catastrophe.
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