Tag: UK
Plea deal ends personal ordeal for Julian Assange, but still media...
Pacific Media Watch
The reported plea bargain between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the United States government brings to a close one of the darkest...
John Minto: The first casualty of war is truth – the...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Good slogans have people nodding their heads in agreement because they recognise an underlying truth in the words.
I have a...
NZ Foreign Minister Peters accused of ‘entirely defamatory’ remarks about ex-Australian...
By Jo Moir, RNZ News political editor, and Craig McCulloch, deputy political editor
New Zealand's Labour Party is demanding Winston Peters be stood down as...
Al Jazeera’s Bishara says ICJ critics ‘demolished shameless defences’ of Israel...
Pacific Media Watch
The International Court of Justice (ICC) has held its last day of hearings examining the legality of Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian...
World Court orders Israel to take steps to prevent acts of...
Asia Pacific Report
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to take steps to prevent acts of genocide in South Africa's case over...
NZ foreign policy critics warn over ‘inflaming’ Red Sea crisis, call...
Asia Pacific Report
A group of foreign policy critics alarmed at the Aotearoa New Zealand government’s "undemocratic decision" to step up support for US-led strikes...
When Yemen does it it’s ‘terrorism’, when the US does it...
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
The Biden administration has officially re-designated Ansarallah -- the dominant force in Yemen also known as the Houthis -- as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist...
Peace doesn’t come by trying to bludgeon the Middle East into...
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
The US has carried out another air raid on Yemen, with targets reportedly including the international airport in the capital city...
Potential AUKUS deal could divide NZ and Pacific, says academic
By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific
An international relations professor says that if New Zealand joins AUKUS it could impact on its relations with Pacific countries.
AUKUS...
Human rights arguments have lost credibility over double standards
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
At a time when the West has weaponised human rights, the United Nations body that promotes freedom of expression...
UK minister grilled on West Papua human rights in House of...
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist
The United Kingdom's commitments to upholding human rights have come under question this week over the West Papua issue,...
‘Bringing war much closer to home’ – Pacific elders denounce AUKUS...
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor; Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital journalist; and Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist
A group of former leaders of...
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...
Pacific needs to sit up and pay close attention to AUKUS,...
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor, and Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
A Pacific elder and former secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum says Pacific...
No subs with nuclear arms for Fiji waters, says PM Rabuka
By Repeka Nasiko in Suva
Nuclear-armed submarines are not welcome in Fiji waters.
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka said this as he stressed he did not support...
As Australia signs up for nuclear subs, NZ faces hard decisions...
ANALYSIS: By Nicholas Khoo, University of Otago
Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating’s recent strident criticism of the A$368 billion nuclear-powered submarine deal announced under...
NZ aid worker remains missing in Ukraine – the tragedy of...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
The humanitarian aid worker Andrew Bagshaw, who has dual New Zealand and British citizenship, has been missing in...
Gavin Ellis: News media face distrust by association with social media
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
A new study suggests that the news media’s tanking levels of public trust may be made worse merely by association with...
Fiji hosts US-led multinational military exercises on Pacific ‘threats’
RNZ Pacific
Mortar demonstrations involving military forces from five nations have taken place in Fiji.
The tactical field training exercise called Exercise Cartwheel was a US...
IFJ calls on Canberra to act against Assange extradition order to...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Following the United Kingdom’s decision to extradite Julian Assange to face trial in the United States, the International Federation of Journalists’...
Advocacy group calls on NZ to ‘end silence’ over Assange extradition
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
A media freedom advocacy group has called on New Zealand to end its silence over the Julian Assange case in what...
Assange extradition order a ‘dangerous assault on international journalism’, says MEAA
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The UK government’s decision to uphold the application by the US Department of Justice to extradite Australian publisher Julian Assange imperils...