Kiribati ferry survivor search suspended
Aerial searches for survivors of a ferry that sunk in Kiribati have been suspended.
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Kiribati ferry 'may have carried 100 passengers'
The missing Kiribati ferry may have been carrying as many as 100 passengers.
Kiribati ferry missing with 50 on board
A search is underway for a Kiribati ferry missing for seven days with 50 people on board.
Three missing in central Pacific
Orion searching for three people lost near an atoll in the central Pacific.
Engine fault stops search for fishermen
A Royal NZ Air Force Orion has lost power in one engine but has landed safely.
NZDF join search for Kiribati fishermen
The three men having been missing for more than five days after going fishing on Monday.
Missing Kiribati fishermen found
NZDF find three Kiribati fishermen who were missing for four days in the Pacific Ocean.
Brian Rudman: Surreal for NZ to be lectured on nukes
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Greens want refugee quota of 5000
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Teen stranded: 11 days in Pacific Ocean
A 14-year-old from Kiribati was rescued after drifting alone in the Pacific Ocean.
RNZAF Orion joins search for fishermen
The New Zealand Defence Force is helping search for three fishermen who have been missing at sea off the Pacific island-nation of Kiribati since last week.
Finding missing fishermen 'satisfying'
Three fishermen missing at sea for more than a week have been found alive by the RNZAF.
Three fishermen missing
The Air Force has sent a plane to Kiribati in search for three fishermen.
Air Force rescues Kiribati fishermen
The Royal New Zealand Air Force has successfully rescued two Kiribati fishermen who were reported missing last week, just days after a first successful mission in the same region.
Warming a poser for Aussies
Kiribati believes Australia is struggling with its position on climate change, preventing the nation from going into bat for its Pacific neighbours at major climate talks in Paris.
'Climate change refugee' to be deported - Government
A last-ditch appeal against the deportation of a man who claimed to be the world's first climate change refugee has failed.
Coastwatcher's son steps in to restore Ranui base
On March 26, the last of the southern coastwatchers, John Stuart Jones, was to have voyaged to the Auckland Islands with an expedition to restore his old home in Ranui Cove.
Will the Earhart mystery be solved?
New forensic imaging techniques are being used to solve the mystery of the final resting place of Amelia Earhart, whose plane vanished over the Pacific in 1937.
Investment plan for Kiritimati Island
The government has announced an investment plan to develop tourism in Kiribati.
Toby Manhire: Climate asylum claim sign of things to come
The story from NZ that received the most international play this week was: NZ rejects climate change refugee. Kooky. But his effort to gain asylum here because of the impact of climate change in Kiribati is more a harbinger than an oddity.
Climate change 'refugee' claim rejected
A Kiribati man's bid to become the world's first climate change refugee in New Zealand has been rejected for a third time.
Business bosses join military operation
Rotorua businessman Joe La Grouw Jnr is preparing himself for the unknown - a military operation to Kiribati.
Search continues for missing fishermen
An Air Force Orion is this morning continuing to search for three Kiribati fishermen overdue from a fishing trip.
Delay angers kin of Kiwis executed in Kiribati
The Defence Force has been criticised for nine months of "evasive" responses over the possible discovery of long-lost Kiwi war heroes in the Pacific.
Audrey Young: Pacific party sets tone for better relations
As John Key prepares for a White House visit next week, New Zealand's Pacific role is growing in value.