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Month: June 2026

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Counting underway at polling stations in New Caledonia provincial elections

June 28, 2026

By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ, RNZ Pacific reporters Polling stations have now closed in New Caledonia, as electoral officials begin tallying votes in today’s provincial elections. The Sunday elections are the first to be held in the French territory for 7 years after the 2024 elections were abandoned following riots that left 14 dead, and

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Pakistan PM drops a ‘truth bomb’ on US about the Iranian missiles

June 28, 2026

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, one of the signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the US, has called out what he says are double standards and duplicity by those trying to wreck the peace deal. His short, memorable statement was largely ignored in the Western media

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Heavy security deployed as New Caledonia’s crucial elections begin

June 28, 2026

By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific Heavy security has been deployed in New Caledonia as crucial provincial elections are being held in the French Pacific territory today. Polling stations are open from 8am local time (9am NZ time) until 6pm tonight. This comes as heavy security has been deployed. It involves a total of some

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NZ anti-war protesters call for independent foreign policy and peaceful planet

June 27, 2026

COMMENTARY: By Liz Remmerswaal Up to 1000 people joined a March for Peace in Auckland last weekend to demand that Aotearoa New Zealand become a voice for peace rather than a complicit partner in US-led illegal wars. The march on June 20 was organised by a new group, Anti-War Aotearoa (AWA), and Greenpeace Aotearoa, and

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The reckoning – what the US-Iran MOU means in reality for Israel

June 27, 2026

Israel’s legitimacy has been catastrophically squandered. It can only begin to be rebuilt through justice for the Palestinian people, writes Lim Tean. ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean It is a peculiar kind of defeat — one dressed in the language of victory. Operation Epic Fury was sold to the world as a decisive strike to eliminate

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New Caledonia’s political parties make final pitch to voters before campaigning ends

June 27, 2026

By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific Campaigning in New Caledonia officially closed yesterday at midnight local time — two days ahead of election day tomorrow, June 28. The poll will renew the members of New Caledonia’s three provincial assemblies (Northern, Southern and the Loyalty Islands). In the following days and well into July, the poll