Tag: Ukraine War
Jacinda Ardern first New Zealander to be invited to speak at...
By Katie Scotcher, RNZ News political reporter
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is expected to participate in the upcoming NATO Leaders Summit, becoming the first New...
Russian oligarch’s super yacht leaves Fiji for US following court ruling
RNZ Pacific
A Russian-owned superyacht docked in Fiji has left for the United States after a Fiji court ordered its removal, saying it was a...
French reporter ‘paid with his life’ for reliable Ukraine war coverage
Pacific Media Watch
Appalled by French reporter Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff’s death in Ukraine on Monday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for a transparent investigation into...
Open letter to Nanaia Mahuta: Do the right thing over Palestine...
The world reacts over the assassination of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and the desecration of her funeral by Israeli security forces. Video: Al...
John Minto: NZ government and media must own up to their...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The absolute impunity which the Aotearoa New Zealand government has given to Israel’s racist apartheid regime over many decades and the...
Fiji’s Court of Appeal rules Russian super yacht will stay in...
By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva
Fiji's Court of Appeal has ruled that the Russian luxury yacht Amadea, seized by the US government...
US free to remove Russian oligarch’s super yacht after Fiji court...
RNZ Pacific
The United States government can now remove the US$325 million luxury yacht Amadea, owned by Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, currently docked in Fiji.
A...
The value of virtue: 7 reasons why Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s crisis leadership...
ANALYSIS: By Suze Wilson, Massey University and Toby Newstead, University of Tasmania
The war in Ukraine would test even the most hardened political operator: millions...
Graham Davis: Behind the saga of the ‘seized’ Russian super yacht...
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis
If you’re as confused as most people by the exact circumstances surrounding the continuing presence in Fiji of the Russian super...
José Ramos-Horta declares victory in Timor-Leste presidential election
RNZ News
Independence leader and Nobel laureate José Ramos-Horta has declared victory in Timor-Leste's presidential election, saying he had secured "overwhelming" support and would now...
Fiji court orders oligarch’s super yacht to remain as US files...
RNZ Pacific
The High Court in Suva has allowed an application by the public prosecutor to stop the super yacht Amadea belonging to Russian billionaire...
New Zealand and Singapore add climate to partnership priorities
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital journalist
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong have added a focus on climate...
Gavin Ellis: Show us the full horror of war in Ukraine
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
Atrocities and total war are not pixilated or sanitised. They bring death with unimaginable brutality and obliterate lives with indifference. It...
Fiji Customs issue breaches notice to skipper of Russian vessel Amadea
By Anish Chand in Lautoka
The Fiji Revenue and Customs Service has issued two infringement notices to the captain of the seized Russian super yacht...
Fate of Russian super yacht Amadea still unknown – docked at...
By Anish Chand in Lautoka
The seizure of a super yacht -- reportedly owned by a sanctioned Russian oligarch -- by the US government in...
Fiji ‘making mockery of UN’, says Rabuka on Russian ship Amadea
By Anish Chand in Lautoka
Fiji is making a mockery of its stand in the United Nations in condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine by allowing...
‘We don’t do Russians,’ says Fiji health minister over super yacht...
By Anish Chand in Lautoka
“We don’t do Russians.” This was the response from Fiji's Health Minister Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete when asked about the...
NZ Defence Force confident ‘ageing’ Hercules aircraft can cope with Europe...
RNZ News
Commander of Joint Forces Jim Gilmour says he is confident New Zealand's Hercules fleet will be up to the task as 50 Defence...
Economic sanctions still best way to pressure Russia, says Ardern
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says expelling the Russian ambassador remains an option, but it would not have the most impact of the actions...
‘No 8 wire mentality’ used in New Zealand aid effort in...
RNZ News
A New Zealand aid worker in Kyiv says the ReliefAid group he leads was one of the first to provide food in the...
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...
Ukraine, Israel, racism and the tired hypocrisy over refugees and Palestine
When Israel steals Palestinian land ... Image: imgflip.com
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed so much hypocrisy in Aotearoa New Zealand and...