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US basketball player Brittney Griner has been released from prison in Russia and is on her way home.

By Luc Cohen and Karen Freifeld Donald Trump's real estate company was convicted on Tuesday of carrying out a 15-year-long criminal scheme to defraud tax authorities, adding to the legal...

French President Emmanuel Macron has pushed back over new American subsidies that are riling European leaders, according to a participant in a closed-door meeting with US lawmakers.

In a new documentary, RNZ's Guyon Espiner asks what business Richard Nixon has in sending hundreds of New Zealanders to prison each year for low-level drug offences.

A manager at a Walmart store in Virginia opened fire on fellow employees in a break room, killing six before turning the gun on himself, eyewitnesses said.

The prime minister is supporting a call for action over Myanmar during a regional security summit in Cambodia.

When it comes to climate finance, most people agree on one thing: there isn't enough of it - whether to help developing countries power their economies more cleanly, or adjust to the impacts of…

National Party leader Christopher Luxon believes Covid-19 is no excuse for low attendance rates in schools.

On Twitter, Elon Musk said he recommended voting for a Republican Congress, given the presidency is Deomcratic.

South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a period of national mourning on after a Halloween crush killed more than 150 people in a packed nightlife area in Seoul.

The man who clubbed US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband in the head with a hammer is facing charges of attempted murder and other felonies a day later.

The violent attack on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's husband comes with just over a week to go before the US midterm elections - a moment when political tensions are coming to the boil.

Analysis - The government's use of a firm run by Israeli ex-spies and military commanders to scour social media platforms has landed NZ in a global debate over 'surveillance for hire', writes Phil…

A Florida jury has decided to spare Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who killed 17 people in 2018 at a high school in the city of Parkland, from the death penalty, instead calling for life in prison.

French Polynesia was at US-Pacific as a Pacific Forum member; Flosse given suspended prison sentence; Tonga lifts supervised rat tests for Covid, and more

Samoan police get fined for 2019 assault, French Polynesia invited to Biden summit, Samoa opposition back pay issue resolved, San Diego holds Pacific festival

First Person - RNZ deputy political editor Craig McCulloch pulls back the curtain on some of the lighter moments behind the scenes and on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

The Marshall Islands has pulled the plug on talks with the US aimed at finalising aspects of the Compact of Free Association, under which Washington provides its former colony with aid and assistance. Audio

Russia and Ukraine have carried out an unexpected prisoner swap, the largest since the war began and involving almost 300 people.

Flights out of Russia were selling out fast and police reportedly arrested hundreds of protesters after President Vladimir Putin ordered the call-up of extra troops to fight in Ukraine.

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Queen Elizabeth II's coffin has been lowered into the royal vault in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, her final resting place.

Queen Elizabeth's coffin was lowered into a vault at Windsor Castle, her final resting place, after a day of inimitable pageantry that drew world leaders to her funeral and huge crowds to the streets.

The Queen's life-long sense of duty has been remembered in her state funeral service at Westminster Abbey.

The funeral service to remember Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, has begun at Westminster Abbey.