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Month: October 2026

Asia Pacific Report
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Pacific Elders’ Voice calls for reversal of Forum partnership with Israel

October 28, 2026

RNZ Pacific reporters The Pacific Elders’ Voice has called for the Pacific Islands Forum to review and reverse its partnership agreement with Israel. The group of former Pacific prime ministers, presidents and senior diplomats says the Forum’s decision to make Israel a sectoral partner conflicts with the region’s commitments to human rights, self-determination and international

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Keith Rankin Analysis – Is New Zealand geopolitically invisible?

October 28, 2026

Keith Rankin writes: Foreign policy should be at the fore of the New Zealand election debates, and not just because foreign events raise the price of diesel fuel. New Zealand should make itself visible to the world, not as a lifeboat or latter-day Noah's Ark, but as a committed non-judgemental advocate for world peace and diplomacy.

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West New Britain governor speaks out about raskols as 12 killed in Kimbe

October 28, 2026

By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea’s West New Britain province Governor Sasindran Muthuvel says the public is deeply frustrated with repeated armed robberies and other violent crime. Sasindran Muthuvel’s comment comes after police confirmed the death of 12 men who they say staged an armed robbery at a tradestore in West New