PM Bill English has his reasons for staying mum on Trump - but it may have a cost.

COMMENT: The generals have it over Mr Tillerson's State Department.

There has been no change in NZ's position says English.

A female guard at a North Korean camp has spoken about terrible incidents she saw.

The American student was detained in North Korea for attempting to steal a poster.

Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee won't say whether NZ will back intervention in Nth Korea.

North Korea has issued a warning to our Tasman neighbours over their pro-US stance.

North Korea has been secretly training elite special forces to kidnap Westerners.

Managing NZ's complex relationship with China has been a key preoccupation for McCully.

President Donald Trump will be sending a chill through the intelligence services.

In a post-Brexit minefield, Bill English managed to avoid inflaming European sensitivities on his first major international visit as a 'junior world leader'.

Russia will not expel US diplomats in a tit-for-tat response to the White House's decision to send home Russian officials suspected of spying.

Two Texas students were reprimanded after they performed a skit portraying the assassination of President-elect Donald Trump.

Of all the images emerging from this testing week, the sight of a military flotilla standing off Kaikoura counts among the most extraordinary.

The trend against globalisation is a western phenomenon, not matched in developing economies, a visiting expert says.

The Malaysian diplomat convicted of indecently assaulting a Wellington woman has been deported after finishing his sentence.

COMMENT: Melania Trump has been pooper-scooping after Donald since 1998, but she will never be cast as a victim, in her eyes or anyone else's.

The United Nations' next boss is a charismatic, former socialist prime minister who led the UN's refugee agency during one of its most difficult times.

COMMENT: On one hand our two governments are building a free trade zone to continually deepen our cooperation on trade and investment. On the other, we are creating a new history of exchanges on culture and language, writes Wang Lutong.

The Turkish leader has two goals: to ensure the destruction of Assad's regime, and to prevent the creation of a new Kurdish state in Syria, writes Gwynne Dyer.

COMMENT: Russia's President has been taught a lesson with the shooting of a warplane over Turkish air space.

The downing of a Russian SU24 fighter jet by Turkish authorities was inevitable. Russia has flouted the territorial border of Turkey time and again in the past few months so it is no surprise that this has happened.

John Key has hinted that Trade Minister Tim Groser could take over as New Zealand's ambassador to the United States.

Turkey has now bombed a few IS targets to show willing - but if you look at the videos, the Turkish planes are launching missiles at single buildings out in open fields, writes Gwynne Dyer.

Unless we allow borders to reform naturally this Sunni time bomb will blow unpredictably benefitting ISIS, writes Ron Mark.

To mark Bastille Day and 70 years of diplomatic relations between France and New Zealand, the French ambassador Florence Jeanblanc-Risler looks at the relationship between the two countries.

Those military officers will continue to dominate politics, because 25 per cent of the votes, according to the 2008 constitution, can block any changes to the constitution, writes Gwynne Dyer.

More than half the 57 million young children still not in classrooms today live in countries torn apart by conflict or natural disaster, writes Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg.

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior off Marsden Wharf. We take a look back.

We see ISIS as thuggish martyrdom-seeking zealots, but brutal and disgusting though they be, its actions as a fighting force belie any belief they are oafish bandits, writes Ron Mark.