Tag: USA
Amnesty chief calls UNRWA funding cuts ‘heartless’, ‘sickening’
Asia Pacific Report
Agnes Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International, has called the funding cuts to the UN's Palestinian humanitarian relief agency a “heartless...
Palestinian agency condemns funding cuts as ‘ collective punishment’
Asia Pacific Report
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has joined a chorus of global development and political figures defending the United Nations "lifeline"...
Caitlin Johnstone: Israel accuses the ICJ of (you guessed it) antisemitism
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
The International Court of Justice rejected Israel’s request to dismiss the genocide case brought against it by South Africa yesterday, ruling...
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...
ICJ ruling an ‘indirect’ order for Israeli ceasefire in genocidal war,...
Asia Pacific Report
Although the International Court of Justice (ICJ) did not directly issue an order for a ceasefire in Gaza, says a leading Israeli...
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...
‘Holding world to ransom,’ claims NZ defence minister over Yemen action
RNZ News
New Zealand's defence minister has defended a decision to send six NZ Defence Force staff to the Middle East to help "take out"...
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...
War on Gaza: The US plan to revamp Palestinian Authority is...
ANALYSIS: By Samer Jaber
For two months now, the United States and other Western countries backing Israel have been talking about “the day after” in...
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...
NZ elections 2023: Green Party, Te Pāti Māori call out ‘harmful...
RNZ News
Green Party co-leader James Shaw has compared the language of New Zealand First leader Winston Peters to former US president Donald Trump, saying...
Palestine furious at PNG Prime Minister opening embassy in Jerusalem
RNZ Pacific
The Palestinian Authority has called the opening of Papua New Guinea's Israeli embassy in Jerusalem an "aggression" and a "violation" of international law.
In...
USAID launches ‘reinvigorated’ Pacific mission to help sustainability goals
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
The United States government’s overseas development aid arm US Agency for International Development (USAID) opened two new offices in Papua...
Anger over failure of sirens to go off as wildfire swept...
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist
As recovery and humanitarian efforts ramp up in Hawai'i's Maui to help evacuees from the town of Lāhainā, there...
Macron warns of ‘new colonialism’ in Pacific, but clings to French...
ANALYSIS: By Ravindra Singh Prasad
In a historic first visit to an independent Pacific state by a sitting French president, President Emmanuel Macron has denounced...
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...
PNG plans 21-gun salute for Macron in historic visit to an...
PNG Post-Courier
French President Emmanuel Macron jets into Port Moresby late tomorrow for his historic visit to Papua New Guinea and will be met by...
Macron in New Caledonia to bolster France’s Indo-Pacific strategy
By Eleisha Foon, journalist
France has deployed Rafale jet fighters during a military ceremony in New Caledonia, marking President Emmanuel Macron's first official day in...
French President Macron to make historic visit to PNG, Vanuatu
RNZ Pacific
French President Emmanuel Macron will make a first official visit to Papua New Guinea next Friday as part of a short Pacific trip.
AFP...
Congressmen angry that Bikini islanders’ nuclear trust fund may have been...
By Giff Johnson, Editor, Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent
Following widespread media coverage of the collapse of what was a more than US$70...
India launches ‘celebration of future’ climate research centre at USP
By Joeli Bili in Suva
A partnership forged between the Indian government and the University of the South Pacific (USP) will see the establishment of...
Memories of war haunt ‘slippery slope’ to a militarised Pacific
ANALYSIS: By Barbara Dreaver in Port Moresby
When I was growing up in Kiribati, then known as the Gilbert Islands, New Zealand divers came to...