A war without headlines: Israel’s shock-and-awe campaign in the West Bank
COMMENTARY: By Ramzy Baroud
A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately...
Israel accused over ‘shameful whitewashing’ bid to sanitise soldier holidays in...
Asia Pacific Report
A pro-Palestian campaigner today accused the Israeli military forces of "once again trying to sanitise its" image in Aotearoa New Zealand, condemning...
Bonds, blockings and bans – a massive new-year US shakeup for...
By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist
From heavy visa bonds to suspended applications to straight-up travel bans, the United States has implemented or announced sweeping...
Israeli society has ‘become completely genocidal’, says B’Tselem head
Team Zeteo
The cost of telling the truth from inside a society that has become “completely genocidal” is very high, says Yuli Novak, executive director...
Eugene Doyle: Iran in the vortex – what’s really going on...
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
If you want to understand what’s going on in Iran, abandon what the Persians invented centuries ago: Manichaeism. We use the...
Evening star rising: Girlhood in the Aeta heartlands of the Philippines
SPECIAL REPORT: By Keeara Ofren
The lives of children will always tell the past and future of any community. My colleague Estelle and I will...
FLNKS sends in late request to join Paris talks on New...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) has put in a late request...
Ian Powell: Bondi Beach’s murderous terrorism aftermath – an Aotearoa perspective
COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell
On 14 December 2025, a father and son, reportedly linked to the ISIS clerical fascist organisation, committed a murderous attack on...
Israel tries to drag US into ‘fighting wars on its behalf,’...
Middle East Monitor
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Wednesday that Israel has always tried to draw the US into wars fought “on its...
Mixed reactions to shock axing of All Blacks coach Scott Robertson
By Adam Burns, RNZ News reporter
There has been mixed reaction in parts of New Zealand's red-and-black country -- Canterbury -- following the shock axing...
From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel use the same violent...
Renee Good, like many Palestinians before her, died because authoritarian forces decided she did not deserve to live, and because the entire legal and...
China matches US contribution to Pacific environmental body a week after...
By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist
Just over a week after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) --...
FLNKS boycotts Macron-convened Paris talks over future this week
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
The Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), one of the main components in New Caledonia's...
Iran protests – why this upheaval is fundamentally different from 1979
ANALYSIS: By Saeid Golkar
Iran is living through one of the most dangerous moments in its post-revolutionary history. Nationwide protests have become sustained rather than...
Indonesia accused of being ‘unfit’ for UN rights council presidency
Asia Pacific Report
A West Papuan advocacy group has condemned Indonesia over taking up the presidency of the United Nations Human Rights Council, saying it...
Adelaide Writers Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum
By Kim Wingerei and Michael West in Sydney
Adelaide Writers' Week, a core part of South Australia’s premier cultural event, the Adelaide Festival, has finally...
Chris Hedges: The global machinery of terror
The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be...
Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation
Indonesia needs a fundamental shift in perspective: seeing Papuans not as a problem to be managed, but as equal partners and full subjects of...
CNMI leaders warn economic slide could affect US strategic presence in...
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent
Leaders in the Northern Marianas have warned that a deepening economic crisis in the...
Mixed reactions over Samoan PM’s proposal to ban non-Christian religions
RNZ Pacific
A proposal by Sāmoa's Prime Minister to ban all non-Christian religions from the country is being met with mixed reactions.
The Samoa Observer reported...









































