Tag: USA
Minerals, military strategy draw the eye of Trump to isolated atoll...
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Milne
Isolation has been a challenge for the people of the atoll of Tongareva, 1300km north of the Cook Islands capital on...
Israel ready to ‘forcibly remove’ Gaza population but awaiting US approval
Asia Pacific Report
Israel has plans ready to forcibly remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip but is waiting for the United States to figure out...
Pacific Islands Forum: Should outside nations be allowed at the leaders’...
By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau
The Solomon Islands is asking its fellow Pacific Island Forum (PIF) members to reconsider the presence...
US expected to announce major fuel security deal at Pacific Islands...
By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau
The United States is set to announce a fuel security deal worth US$60 million for the...
US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’
By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau
The United States and New Zealand will co-fund a new "lifeline" port with the Cook Islands...
Notable absences loom ahead of PIF leaders’ meeting in Palau
By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau
The 55th Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting officially kicks off tonight in Koror, Palau.
The runway leading...
‘Bloodthirsty psychopath’ – Israel’s Ben-Gvir touts viewing booths at gallows for...
COMMENTARY: By Brett Wilkins
Still drawing international censure for his genocidal call to kill dozens of Gazans daily, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has...
Britain’s Big Brother state is already here – we just don’t...
While the public is encouraged to blame immigrants, Muslims, the left, or "Israel haters", the UK state is racing to erect a scaffolding of...
Papua New Guinea seeks dialogue over new hefty $20,000 US visa...
By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has sought further dialogue with the United States over its new visa...
Solomon Islands PM urges ‘no more secrecy’ over treaties with other...
RNZ Pacific reporters
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale has announced that a review of his country's security agreement with China has begun.
Wale has said...
Pacific Islands Forum fails to reach consensus on anti-missile statement against...
By Susana Suisuiki of RNZ Pacific
Disagreement from some China-aligned Pacific Islands countries has prevented regional countries within the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) issuing a...
Self defence action by Iran ‘first truly consequential action’ by state,...
The Electronic Intifada
Israel and Iran are unique for starkly different reasons -- Israel has less of a right to exist than any other country,...
Why the Trump administration is running scared of the global criminal...
BP Daily
The strongest sign that the International Criminal Court (ICC) still has teeth is that the most powerful administration in the world is trying...
‘Profound strategic misjudgment’ – why Iran may have upper hand in...
RNZ Morning Report
The outcome of the US and Israel war against Iran looks likely to come down to a test of wills, says a...
The man who would bomb the Hormuz actuaries – and he...
ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean
Former US Vice-President Mike Pence wants Donald Trump to "finish the job" in the Strait of Hormuz.
After 130 days of war...
RIMPAC 2026: Part 1 – World’s biggest naval games a dress...
From June 24-July 31, dozens of countries will be taking part in the latest edition of the massive RIMPAC military exercises that take place...
At the World Cup, the Western media has set up a...
COMMENTARY: By Patrick Gathara
“Why is it that African teams and Middle Eastern teams have to answer for what their governments are doing but European...
Iran’s heartbroken Team Melli exit World Cup amid silver lining of...
By Anushe Engineer
Iran’s bittersweet, logistically complicated, politically charged, and heartbreaking World Cup run found a silver lining in Mexico, where the men’s football team...
The reckoning – what the US-Iran MOU means in reality for...
Israel's legitimacy has been catastrophically squandered. It can only begin to be rebuilt through justice for the Palestinian people, writes Lim Tean.
ANALYSIS: By Lim...
Trump went to war against Iran and got a deal far...
COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean
Two days ago, I wrote an article and posted on FaceBook describing the US-Iran ceasefire as a surrender document. That article...
Caitlin Johnstone: The world’s first trillionaire is not your friend
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
It’s so pathetic watching Elon Musk’s groveling bootlickers fall all over themselves on social media to defend their favorite oligarch from...
They’re saying the attack on Iran was ‘proportional’ – here are...
COMMENTARY: By Nuri Vitacchi
The US on Wednesday night destroyed civilian water utilities serving 20,000 Iranian people.
“The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian...



































