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French anti-riot police fire teargas during protests against Covid-19 restrictions and a vaccination campaign.

Thirty five years later, Fran Wilde and Trevor Mallard discuss the campaign, strategy and tactics involved in the 1985-86 campaign to legalise gay sex.

Week in Politics - The government risks retaliation after accusing China of cyber hacking, 370,000 doses of vaccine arrive for the "ramp-up", and opposition parties launch law and order policies…

Tokyo Olympics organisers have fired the opening ceremony director on the eve of the event after reports emerged of a past joke he had made about the Holocaust.

Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-a-Rua iwi members will vote next week on the terms of a $115 million Treaty of Waitangi settlement.

Asked at a news conference if the Games might still be cancelled, Toshiro Muto said he would keep an eye on infection numbers and liaise with other organisers if necessary.

Explainer - The Tokyo Olympic Games were postponed a year, there are no spectators allowed, and strict Covid-19 rules are in place. So how are the Olympics going to work? RNZ is here to clear it all…

Tokyo 2020 Olympics sponsor Toyota will not run Games-related TV commercials amid lacklustre public support for the Olympics.

Infection rates are climbing as athletes gather for postponed games.

Fiji's National Budget worth $US1.78 billion announced on Friday night is designed with three objectives, all of it linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.

New Zealand's formal government apology for the Dawn Raids has been rescheduled to Sunday 1 August.

Samoa's defiant caretaker government has lost another seat following the latest court petition over the election result.

Seven staff tested positive at a hotel southwest of Tokyo where dozens of Brazilian Olympic team members are staying, as the host city records a wave of new infections.

Following a representation review, councillors have voted to keep the status quo and Kawerau will continue to be represented by one mayor and eight councillors with no community boards or wards.

The Samoa Supreme Court has refused to allow an HRPP election winner, Tuisa Tasi Patea, in Sagaga 4 electoral constituency and the challenger, FAST's Tagaloatele Poloa, to withdraw their petitions

Is a sports world without doping an impossible aspiration? David Howman, director-general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, talks drugs and testing. 

Analysis - The government gives the first indication of what the Covid-19 future holds for Kiwis, a Labour MP breaks ranks with comments about China, the retirement age resurfaces and a second vaccine…

Samoa's Court of Appeal is to decide whether the election-winning FAST Party will be recognised as the country's new government.

Japan has placed its capital Tokyo under a new state of emergency that will last for the duration of the upcoming Olympic Games.

New Caledonia has elected its first pro-independence Kanak president.