Tag: Joe Biden
OPM leader’s open letter condemns Australia’s ‘treachery’ over Papua
Asia Pacific Report
The West Papuan resistance OPM leader has condemned Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden, accusing their countries of...
Australian author leads silence protest over ‘blood debt’ owed to Papuans
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian author and advocate, Jim Aubrey, today led a national symbolic one minute's silence to mark the "blood debt" owed to...
Palestine solidarity must keep up pressure as Israel defies Gaza ceasefire...
COMMENTARY: Jewish Voice for Peace
The UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza on Monday -- and for the first...
Nuclear submarines may never appear, but AUKUS is already in place
By Paul Gregoire in Sydney
One year since Prime Minister Anthony Albanese went to San Diego to unveil the AUKUS deal the news came that...
ICJ’s stunning blow over Gaza war genocide charge ups pressure on...
ANALYSIS: By Trita Parsi
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled against Israel and determined that South Africa successfully argued that Israel’s conduct plausibly...
War on Gaza: Bombed hospital a turning point? Hegemonic security v...
ANALYSIS: By Marwan Bishara
The Israeli bombing of the Baptist hospital in Gaza killing hundreds of innocent Palestinians may have been a turning point in...
NZ govt ‘welcomes’ US diplomatic relations with Cook Islands, Niue
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
The New Zealand government has given its full blessing to Cook Islands and Niue establishing diplomatic relations with the...
Biden apologises to PNG, Blinken being sent for Pacific dialogue
By Lawrence Fong and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
United States President Joe Biden yesterday apologised to Prime Minister James Marape and the people of...
PNG’s Marape confident of pulling off PNG-US defence pact in spite...
By Lawrence Fong and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape is still confident of delivering the PNG-US Defence Cooperation...
Biden cuts out Australia and Papua New Guinea on Pacific visit
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
US President Joe Biden will cut out his historic trip to Papua New Guinea -- and also to Australia...
OPM leader calls on Biden to take proactive role in ending...
Asia Pacific Report
Free Papua Organisation (OPM) leader Jeffrey Bomanak has appealed to US President Joe Biden for a “proactive role” in ending Indonesia’s “unlawful...
US planned security pact with PNG raises concerns for Pacific
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
The United States is poised to sign a security pact with Papua New Guinea which would give US armed...
PNG beefs up security for visit of Biden, Modi, Pacific leaders
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Two American C-17 Globemaster transport planes will bring 20 vehicles to Papua New Guinea in the next few days...
Elitist, insensitive, blatant abuse of taxpayer money – PNG’s Coronation trip...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
It was a tumultuous week in Papua New Guinea after a 30 member delegation returned from...
Snipers, secret service, special forces fly into PNG for superpower visit
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea’s airspace will be closed for four hours with tight security for when US President Joe Biden...
Aukus ‘going against’ Pacific nuclear free treaty – Cook Islands leader
RNZ Pacific
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown has joined a growing list of Pacific leaders to object to the US$250 billion nuclear submarine deal...
Activists call for US apology, ‘justice’ over Marshall Islands nuclear tests
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist
More than 100 activist groups, including Greenpeace, Veterans for Peace, and the Arms Control Association have signed a letter...
Step up efforts to free Assange after 3 years in jail,...
Pacific Media Watch newdesk
Australia must step up diplomatic efforts to encourage the US government to drop its bid to extradite Julian Assange who has...
John Minto: Bucha – the Russian army’s Fallujah. Justice needed for...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The discovery of many civilian bodies lying dead in the Ukrainian city of Bucha this week has brought out more Western...
Assumptions vs facts – how the Julian Assange case confronts our...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Selwyn Manning in Auckland
The dilemma facing whistleblowers, journalists and publishers who risk it all to help the world’s people to become...
Forum chair welcomes Biden’s ‘Blue Pacific’ climate priority for Paris pact
By RNZ Pacific
The chair of the Pacific Islands Forum has welcomed the re-entry of the United States to the Paris agreement over climate change.
Within...
Joe Biden sends a clear message to watching world – America’s...
ANALYSIS: By Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham
Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path
Two weeks after the storming of...