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Israel’s diabolical killing machine and how it targets journalists

As World Press Freedom Day rapidly approaches and Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Israeli government for its massacre of journalists in Lebanon and Palestine, New Zealand journalist David...

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers have plagued the Pacific

Updated research has shown up lingering headaches over the impacts of decades-long nuclear testing in the Pacific islands...

Banners for Humanity stage powerful community MSF medical fundraiser event

SPECIAL REPORT: By Tony Fala Saturday, 18 April 2026, was a beautiful autumn day in Henderson, Tāmaki, Aotearoa, but...

Amnesty slams Netanyahu, Putin, Trump as ‘voracious predators’

By Anealla Safdar in London The heads of Israel, Russia and the United States are leading the destruction of...

South African activist praises World Court genocide case against Israel

By David Robie, Asia Pacific Report A South African-born New Zealand critic of Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing today...

Open letter plea for NZ to back West Papua peaceful hostage plan

Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand advocacy group has appealed to the government to heed the call of West Papuan church leaders for Indonesia to...

Moetai Brotherson ushers in bold new era of Tavini governance for Mā’ohi Nui

SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva Mā’ohi Nui and the Pacific region has witnessed a historical moment at the Territorial Assembly when Oscar Temaru, leader of...

RSF condemns Israel’s ‘scandalous impunity’ over killing of Shireen Abu Akleh

Reporters Without Borders One year after Al Jazeera’s well known Palestine correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh was fatally shot while reporting in the West Bank on...

PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko steps aside over video row

ABC PACIFIC BEAT: By Marian Faa, Prianka Srinivasan and Belinda Kora Papua New Guinea’s Foreign Minister has stepped aside after a widespread backlash to comments...

‘We’re not primitives’ says UPNG student protest over foreign minister’s ‘disrespect’

By Scott Waide Students at the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) marched to Parliament House in in the capital Port Moresby today in protest...

Resign call to PNG’s foreign minister over his ‘primitive animals’ slur

By Caleb Fotheringham Papua New Guinea’s opposition has called on Foreign Affairs Minister Justin Tkatchenko to resign after calling critics of his trip to London...