Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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Cyclone Maila damage in Papua New Guinea
Climate

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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...
Flooding near Whitianga cuts off a state highway.
Climate

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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...
Cyclone Vaianu is forecast to reach NZ by Saturday

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

French Polynesia's President Moetai Brotherson (left) and his father-in-law Oscar Temaru, president of the ruling Party Tavini Huiraatira

New Zealand surgical team leader in Vietnam Dr Peter Eccles-Smith

FEATURES AND ANALYSIS

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PSNA co-chair Maher Nazzal (from left), councillor Julie Fairey and Kathy Ross
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report The planning and policy committee of New Zealand's largest city today voted decisively to review its procurement policies to ensure it is...
A "dove of peace" in Iran
Analysis

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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...
US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz begins

Iranian negotiators flew to Pakistan on a plane they called “Minab 168” as a tribute to the 168 people - mostly schoolgirls - killed in a US missile strike on an elementary school in the city of Minab on February 28

A "New Zealand government must sanction Israel" banner flutters on one of the Global Sumud Flotilla boats

Breakaway A Fano Tia members, led by Tematai Le Gayic, appear dressed in white

INSTITUTIONS

PSNA co-chair Maher Nazzal (from left), councillor Julie Fairey and Kathy Ross
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report The planning and policy committee of New Zealand's largest city today voted decisively to review its procurement policies to ensure it is...
A "dove of peace" in Iran
Analysis

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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...
US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz begins

Iranian negotiators flew to Pakistan on a plane they called “Minab 168” as a tribute to the 168 people - mostly schoolgirls - killed in a US missile strike on an elementary school in the city of Minab on February 28

A "New Zealand government must sanction Israel" banner flutters on one of the Global Sumud Flotilla boats

Breakaway A Fano Tia members, led by Tematai Le Gayic, appear dressed in white

MEDIA

US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz begins
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COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean This US naval blockade is meant to strangle the Iranian economy by preventing it from exporting oil -- the economic lifeline...
Iranian negotiators flew to Pakistan on a plane they called “Minab 168” as a tribute to the 168 people - mostly schoolgirls - killed in a US missile strike on an elementary school in the city of Minab on February 28
Analysis

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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...
A "New Zealand government must sanction Israel" banner flutters on one of the Global Sumud Flotilla boats

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa's Neil Scott and protesters marching in the Stop Wars Aotearoa rally

Israel’s attack on Lebanon was “one of the deadliest single bombing campaigns

Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah

SPORTS

Vanuatu national women's football team playing Fiji last week in the FIFA 2027 World Cup Oceania Qualifiers
Culture

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By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Vanuatu's only daily newspaper, the Vanuatu Daily Post, is facing a ban on covering future football league matches after...
New All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie
Cook Islands

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By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The All Blacks have their first coach of Pasifika heritage. Dave Rennie has been given the job, replacing the ousted...
Sports consultant and journalist Charlie Charters

Dumped All Blacks coach Scott Roberston

Mele Ikiua with four of her five children: Eunique Ikiua (from left), Kaira-Jo Talagi-Ikiua, Topui Jnr Talagi-Ikiua, Mele, and Hannah Edwards-Ikiua

The controversial 2024 Amsterdam football clashes

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

An appeal advertisement for Jewish National Fund Australia
Asia Report

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The Labor government has told the Senate that Australian charities don’t have to comply with international law, nor will they be compelled. Michael West...
Papua New Guinea . . . on the "grey list"
Business

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By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea is under a close watch for money laundering, running a risk of being abandoned by global...
East Sepik Governor Allan Bird . . . similar risks to last year in this year's budget with overly optimistic revenue forecasts

NZ Defence Minister Judith Collins

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka

Fiji Trades Union Congress board member Daniel Urai (left) and Fiji Trade Union Congress national secretary Felix Anthony

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PM Fiame Naomi Mata'afa in Parliament yesterday

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RNZ Pacific Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa has advised Samoa's head of state that it is necessary to dissolve Parliament so the country can...
John Miller's photograph of the 1975 Land March held up in the same location at the 2024 Hīkoi mō te Tiriti in Pōneke Wellington.

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RNZ News For almost six decades photographer John Miller (Ngāpuhi) has been a protest photographer in Aotearoa New Zealand. From his first photographs of an anti-Vietnam...
Pacific Prana

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Asia Pacific Report An exhibition from Tara Arts International has been brought to The University of the South Pacific as part of the Pacific International...
Jubilant scenes at the end of FestPAC 2024

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RNZ Pacific The director of the Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture Dr Aaron Sala says "it's up to all Pacific nations and their ancestors...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Gaza and Rocket Lab protesters on Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau's Queens Wharf
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report New Zealand protesters have again spotlighted the country’s stake in US space militarisation today and speakers branded Rocket Lab as an alleged...
Taiātea Symposium at Waitangi 2026
Cook Islands

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By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist As Waitangi Day commemorations continue drawing people from across Aotearoa and around the world to the Bay of...
Cook Islands activists confront the EV Nautilus on its return to Rarotonga

Decades after the nuclear tests, Pacific people still endure many consequences

Protesters at an Auckland rally against Israel's genocidal two-year war on Gaza target alleged complicity by RocketLab and BlackSky

Pacific climate digital strategy for the International Court of Justice

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1News Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver
Cook Islands

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RNZ Pacific The seventh narco sub in Pacific waters was discovered last week as the wave of methamphetamine becomes the latest crisis challenging the region. 1News...
Curse of Gold

Village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest as portrayed in the new West Papuan documentary Pesta Babi - Pig Feast

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