Tag: USA
Covid at Kwajalein Army base sparks Majuro worry, protocol changes
By Giff Johnson, Editor, Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent
Despite increasing calls this week from community and political leaders to keep the Marshall...
Nik Dirga: The one word that really matters for US election...
OPINION: By Nik Dirga
I conducted a highly scientific study among a handful of my Facebook friends back home in America this week, asking them...
‘Suspicious’ fishing vessels spotted in Solomon Islands waters
By Priestley Habru in Honiara
A Pacific-wide maritime surveillance operation this week discovered a few suspicious foreign vessels in Solomon waters.
The Pacific Islands Forum Agency...
NZ churches with US links blamed for spreading covid-19 misinformation
By Anusha Bradley, RNZ News reporter
New Zealand churches with US links are being blamed for spreading covid-19 misinformation.
Health Minister Chris Hipkins has said some...
Trump again claims New Zealand has ‘big outbreak’ of covid-19
Politicians react to US President Donald Trump's earlier mocking of New Zealand. Video: RNZ News
By RNZ News
US President Donald Trump has again called New...
Beware of elite billionaire ‘do-gooder’ hypocrisy, warns author
From RNZ Saturday Morning
Described by a Guardian reviewer as "superb hate-reading", writer and columnist Anand Giridharadas's latest book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade...
RSF condemns attacks on US protest journalists fueled by Trump slurs
Pacific Media Watch
Protests in at least 30 cities across the US following the police killing of George Floyd have resulted in violent attacks from...
Thousands march in NZ solidarity rallies with Black Lives Matter
By RNZ News
Thousands of New Zealanders have joined large numbers of Americans in protesting following the killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd.
In Auckland, Aotea...
Kaniva News: Amnesty time for NZ overstayers to help check virus...
EDITORIAL: By Kaniva News staff
Last month’s announcement by Minister for Pacific Peoples 'Aupito William Sio that overstayers qualify for health care during the covid-19...
How corporations make money out of ‘feel-good’ feminism
ANALYSIS: By Catherine Rottenberg
A few days ago, I received a message from my son's secondary school announcing that it would be celebrating International Women's...
FSM, Marshall Islands envoys seek details on police-involved shootings
By Giff Johnson in Majuro
Ambassadors to the United States from the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands are seeking information about officer-involved...
Alastair Thompson: ‘Seismic shift’ in US policy over Syria stuns the...
Syria's President Assad vows to 'retake the whole country'. Video: AFP interview on France 24
OPINION: By Alastair Thompson
The news that the Russians (Sergei Lavrov)...