The United States went to war to stop Iran charging tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. It has now imposed a toll 15 times larger. Where is the “international waterway” chorus now? For five months, we were ...

Sam Neill was New Zealand’s biggest international film star, yet was a modest man who shied from the media spotlight. He has ...

The outcome of the US and Israel war against Iran looks likely to come down to a test of wills, says a local expert — with Iran appearing unlikely to be the first to blink. The fragile ceasefire ...

New Zealand pro-Palestine protesters stage a rally for the 145th consecutive week in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau yesterday . . . condemning Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi - on a brief "historic" ...

Deir el Balah in 2024 . . . The nightmare on the ground in Gaza for Palestinians continues. The machinations of Trump’s Board of Peace appear to be stymying any chance for genuine reconstruction for ...

On October 9, 2023, just after the State of Israel began its ongoing genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip, Sarah Cotte, a French-Ethiopian student at SOAS (the School of Oriental and African Studies) ...

George Speight — a former coup frontman in Fiji — is calling on the perpetrators of the country’s past political upheavals to confess. The ex-convict also described the idea of a common identity for ...

A “lock out” incident in Honiara last year barring Pacific journalists from an Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese press conference is among several events “undercutting” media freedom that ...

Pro-France Virginie Ruffenach has been elected as the new New Caledonia Congress President (Speaker) under a “governance” ...