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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV began his first homily with words in English instead of his fluent Italian and Spanish during mass in the Sistine Chapel with the College of Cardinals
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By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor The leader of the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) has reacted to the election of the new pope. Pope...
Once a tropical paradise thick with coconut palms, Runit Island is capped by a massive concrete structure
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SPECIAL REPORT: By Shaun Burnie of Greenpeace We’ve visited Ground Zero. Not once, but three times. But for generations, before these locations were designated as...
Paula Whetu Jones (right) on finally completing her feature length documentary about the Auckland cardiac surgeon Dr Allan Kerr.

New Zealand journalist and author David Robie talks to Greenpeace activists last month about the Rainbow Warrior bombing and Rongelap voyage

Hundreds of people peacefully rallied at sea to protect the ocean from seabed activities in August 2024

"News Corp and its media bedfellows rely on snark, shrillness and outrage gimmickry

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Flames and a column of smoke in New Caledonia's capital Nouméa during 2024 riots
Decolonisation

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SPECIAL REPORT: By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor Stuck in a state of disbelief for months, journalist Coralie Cochin was one of many media...
Images have been circulating on social media of Indonesian rockets that have been reportedly fired on villages
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Asia Pacific Report An Australian solidarity group for West Papuan self-determination has called on Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to raise the human rights crisis...
New Caledonia's Congress in Nouméa

Pope Leo XIV to journalists

Professor Richard Jackson

French gendarmes on guard at Noumea's central Place des Cocotiers

INSTITUTIONS

Flames and a column of smoke in New Caledonia's capital Nouméa during 2024 riots
Decolonisation

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SPECIAL REPORT: By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor Stuck in a state of disbelief for months, journalist Coralie Cochin was one of many media...
Images have been circulating on social media of Indonesian rockets that have been reportedly fired on villages
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report An Australian solidarity group for West Papuan self-determination has called on Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to raise the human rights crisis...
New Caledonia's Congress in Nouméa

Pope Leo XIV to journalists

Professor Richard Jackson

French gendarmes on guard at Noumea's central Place des Cocotiers

MEDIA

Flames and a column of smoke in New Caledonia's capital Nouméa during 2024 riots
Decolonisation

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SPECIAL REPORT: By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor Stuck in a state of disbelief for months, journalist Coralie Cochin was one of many media...
Pope Leo XIV to journalists
Editor's Picks

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By Devin Watkins of Vatican News Only four days have passed since his election to the papacy, and Pope Leo XIV has made it a...
President Donald Trump's back turned

Renowned Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot by an Israeli sniper in the head on 11 May 2022

Gordon Campbell's Scoop column on the Pope and the Israeli Institute

Once a tropical paradise thick with coconut palms, Runit Island is capped by a massive concrete structure

SPORTS

The controversial 2024 Amsterdam football clashes
Asia Report

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Asia Pacific Report A decision by the Broadcasting Standards Authority to uphold a complaint against a 1News broadcast last November is a warning to news...
In the wake of an ugly eruption of violence on the streets of Amsterdam in November 2024, the Western media coverage of the story was put under the microscope
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Broadcasting Standards Authority New Zealand's Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has upheld complaints about two 1News reports relating to violence around a football match in Amsterdam...
An artist's impression of Quay Park stadium - Te Tōangaroa

Pride Marianas founder Roberto Santos

Israeli tennis player and ex-soldier Lina Glushko

Australian breakdancing champion Rachael Gunn

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

Vietnam today is united and free and millions of ordinary people have achieved security, health, education and prosperity
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Part Three of a three-part Solidarity series COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle 30 April 1975. Saigon Fell, Vietnam Rose. The story of Vietnam after the US fled...
Claire Charters (Ngāti Whakaue) addressing the UN Indigenous People's Forum last week
Civil Society

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By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson in New York Claire Charters, an expert in indigenous rights in international and constitutional law, has told the United Nations the...
Dark Times Academy's Mandy Henk speaking at the Asia Pacific Media Network event

The US District Court in Washington

A school bombed out by Israeli forces provides some shelter to a family in Khan Younis, Gaza

Women make up a large portion of the journalism profession

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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...
Moemoeana Miss Pacific_Islands at FestPAC 2024

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By Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific journalist in Hawai'i "One body, one people, one ocean, one Pacific" was Samoa's powerful statement during the parade of nations...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The International Seabed Authority flag
Development

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By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Nauru's ambition to commercially mine the seabed is likely at risk following President Donald Trump's executive order last...
Trump's Pacific fisheries executive order
Fisheries

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By Gujari Singh in Washington The Trump administration has issued a new executive order opening up vast swathes of protected ocean to commercial exploitation, including...
Rongelap MP Hilton Kendall speaking at the welcoming ceremony for the Rainbow Warrior in Majuro

A personal perspective on USAID as an organisation

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Palau's leader Surangel Whipps Jr (left) and US President-elect Donald Trump

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The Encampments
Asia Report

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REVIEW: By Joseph Fahim This article was initially set out to focus on The Encampments, Kei Pritsker and Michael T Workman’s impassioned documentary that chronicles...
A protest over a controversial and widely condemned series of heavily armed nationwide Te Urewera raids

The podcast takes the listener into a room in Seattle, Washington, in 1984, where Greenpeace International leader Steve Sawyer met for the first time with Jeton Anjain

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