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Pro-independence FLNKS ‘unequivocally’ reject latest agreement for New Caledonia
RSF condemns verdict in ‘fabricated’ case against Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio
Australia’s frightening new ‘hate speech’ laws are clearly aimed at pro-Palestine groups
‘We kill enemies’ – spy firm Palantir secures top Australian security clearance
Provocateur attacks Australian Palestine peace activists protesting over Gaza genocide
High Seas Treaty welcome news for SPREP in uncertain times
Jeremy Rose: Mexico – the revolution isn’t being televised
A Picture that Shows What’s Wrong with Military Bases
Eugene Doyle: Look where appeasing a bully has led the West – Greenland, and then?
New Caledonia’s new Elysée-Oudinot pact signed in Paris – despite boycott
One year into Trump’s second term – repressive US president on track to join world’s worst press freedom predators
Pro-France MPs confront Macron over New Caledonia at future talks
Nobel Peace Prize ‘gift’ to Trump slammed as ‘meaningless, pathetic . . . embarrassing’
A war without headlines: Israel’s shock-and-awe campaign in the West Bank
Israel accused over ‘shameful whitewashing’ bid to sanitise soldier holidays in NZ
Bonds, blockings and bans – a massive new-year US shakeup for Pacific travel
Israeli society has ‘become completely genocidal’, says B’Tselem head
Daria Egereva fought for Indigenous voices at the U.N. Now she’s in a Russian jail.
Evening star rising: Girlhood in the Aeta heartlands of the Philippines
FLNKS sends in late request to join Paris talks on New Caledonia remotely
Israel tries to drag US into ‘fighting wars on its behalf,’ says Iran’s foreign minister
Mixed reactions to shock axing of All Blacks coach Scott Robertson
From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel use the same violent playbook
China matches US contribution to Pacific environmental body a week after Trump pulls out
FLNKS boycotts Macron-convened Paris talks over future this week
Iran protests – why this upheaval is fundamentally different from 1979
Indonesia accused of being ‘unfit’ for UN rights council presidency
Adelaide Writers Week: Cancelled – no decorum without a quorum
Chris Hedges: The global machinery of terror
Papua in the Pacific mirror: A path to recognition and reconciliation
Mixed reactions over Samoan PM’s proposal to ban non-Christian religions
Australia’s ‘antisemitism crisis’ – examining what’s real and what isn’t
Sāmoa set to become third Pacific nation to open Jerusalem embassy
Clark condemns US withdrawal as ‘assault on international system of cooperation’
NGOs warn of catastrophic impact in Gaza – Penny Wong doesn’t care
Ian Powell: The Nicolás Maduro kidnapping, US imperialist expansion and implications for New Zealand
Albanese bows to relentless pressure for Bondi royal commission but scepticism remains
Former NZ mayoral hopeful arrested at Venezuela solidarity protest
Trump just took his most dramatic step yet against global climate action
Trump abandonment of global treaties, including landmark climate deal, ‘threatens all life on Earth’
Jonathan Cook: From Gaza to Venezuela, the US has been unmasked as the serial villain
The Centrality of the Global South: A History
On the Language of Global Politics
Photos of attack on Palestine activist’s property ‘censored’ by Facebook
‘Straight-up piracy and extortion’: Trump says he will control money from sale of Venezuelan oil
Sanctioned oil tanker falsely using Cook Islands flag, authority says
Bryce Edwards: NZ’s craven stance on the US invasion of Venezuela
Malcolm Evans: What have we become that we accept such brigandry?
Papua New Guinea fully retires debt for Liquefied Natural Gas project
New journal warns Pacific media near breaking point amid revenue collapse and political pressure
Six reasons why Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnap of Maduro was very wrong
Out-scooped by Trump – the US attack in Nigeria did indeed point to the operation to kidnap Venezuela’s Maduro
Climate change and human rights demands telling our Pacific stories with clarity and impact
US Strikes on Venezuela Sound an Alarm for Global Governance
With the Gaza genocide, the world changed – sovereignty died and thuggery became a system
Tel Aviv offers to train Australian police officers in Israel after Bondi
US attack on Venezuela ‘clearly illegal’ under UN charter, says former NZ prime minister Helen Clark
Trump’s gift-wrapped Maduro package has done the world a favour – revealing what a lie US foreign policy really is
Artificial Intelligence, Global Inequality, and the Colonial Machinery of Capital
Global Complicity: Who Kills in the Congo?
What changed for deep-sea mining in 2025? Everything.
Here’s the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest
China’s Arms Control White Paper Reconfigures Global Security Governance
Hostage Property and the Global Firestorm
A ‘forgotten hero’ against Imperial Japan, but the legacy of ‘Bintao’ Vinzons is being revived
A ‘forgotten hero’ against Imperial Japan, but the legacy of ‘Bintao’ Vinzons is being revived
West Papuan liberation fighters risk ‘extermination’ by Indonesia’s high-tech forces
West Papuan liberation fighters risk ‘extermination’ by Indonesia’s high-tech forces
Venezuela Isn’t the Global Threat, Trump and Rubio Are
Four Papuan activists jailed on treason charges – NZ advocate says ‘abuse of law’
Tucker Carlson ‘tuckered out’ with Donald Trump and Israel – insights for New Zealand rightwing politics
David Robie’s Eyes of Fire rekindles the legacy of the Rainbow Warrior 40 years on
Fiji, NZ protesters kick off UN day of solidarity for Palestine amid calls for sanctions, boycotts on Israel
Fossil Fuels at COP30: Sacred, Profane and Unmentioned
Fossil Fuels at COP30: Sacred, Profane and Unmentioned
Fiji PM Rabuka blames ‘insulated’ upbringing for racially motivated 1987 coups
Fiji PM Rabuka blames ‘insulated’ upbringing for racially motivated 1987 coups
How Israel has set a dangerous precedent in international law
How Israel has set a dangerous precedent in international law
Indonesia’s Gaza peacekeeping mission risks enforcing a ‘broken’ status quo
Indonesia’s Gaza peacekeeping mission risks enforcing a ‘broken’ status quo
Yellow lines and green zones – Israel’s de facto partition into ‘two Gazas’
Activists slam Mayor Brown’s ‘free beer’ cavalier response to Palestine genocide issue
Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect civic rights, press freedom
Chile plans to launch global campaign seeking to expel ‘pariah’ Israel from United Nations
COP30 ends with ‘extremely weak’ outcomes, says Pacific campaigner
‘Father of Timor Post’ – why Asia Pacific media legend Bob Howarth’s legacy will live on
Israel has lost social media battle over Gaza, says military ex-spokesperson
Showing their aroha for the activist ‘power couple’ of Māngere East
Parochialism, Justice and International Law: Türkiye’s Genocide Warrants for Israel
The Man Behind the Global Influence
CPJ leads solidarity action at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference
Samoan PM takes aim at local journalists, claims overseas media ‘in the dark’
Protesters march to Warehouse in Auckland city, demand halt to Israeli SodaStream products
COP30’s biofuel gamble could cost the global food supply — and the planet
350.org Warns COP30 Draft Texts Fall Short on Fossil Fuel Phaseout and Climate Finance Despite Strong Global Momentum
‘My mana reignited’: Attendees leave world’s largest Indigenous education conference feeling inspired
Ramzy Baroud: Pathetic attempt to achieve by Gaza decree what US-Israel failed to gain through brute force
Pacific climate leaders ‘deeply disappointed’ as Australia loses bid to host COP31
New Caledonia’s pro-independence split widens – another party quits FLNKS
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