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Limited pre-polling for the National General Election opens today in Solomon Islands

Te-Hani Brown has regained her seat in the Cook Islands parliament after winning a by-election.

Members of the Solomon Islands national parliament will pay tax on their salaries again following a decision by the Parliamentary Entitlement Commission to revoke its 2015 award.

The Solomon Islands Electoral Office says the arrival of Australian and New Zealand personnel to provide logistical support for next month's election will also bring a sense of security for voters. Audio

Former Texas congressman Robert "Beto" O'Rourke has formally announced he is running for president in the 2020 election after months of speculation.

A former Fiji Defence Minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola will head a Melanesian Spearhead Group observer team in the Solomon Islands election.

The incumbent president of the Federated States of Micronesia has lost his seat to the challenger, David Panuelo.

Support from Australian and New Zealand security forces for the Solomon Islands' general election next month is purely logistical, the police commissioner says.

The number of voters in the Indian election is typically bigger the population of Europe and Australia combined.

In the first visit by an Australian prime minister to the island, Scott Morrison has announced 57 asylum seekers will be sent to Christmas Island for medical treatment.

One of the Canadian Prime Minister's top ministers has quit saying she has lost confidence in the government's handling of a corruption inquiry.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ruled out lowering the MMP threshold in time for next year's election.

The United Nations in Papua New Guinea has congratulated the governments of PNG and Bougainville for confirming a date for the independence referendum.

Members of local authorities are elected every three years and with only seven months to go, several candidates have already shown an interest in running for their city's top job.

John Tamihere says Phil Goff is going to need to grow a backbone as the campaign gets under way while his rival says he won't be drawn into personality politics. Audio

A survey of Māori shows three quarters would support the legalisation of cannabis for person use.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has brushed aside the resignations of two more senior ministers, insisting the coalition can still win the federal election in May.

Israel's attorney general intends to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges.

As New Zealand increasingly backs queer rights, are our Christian churches evolving or standing firm that homosexuality is sinful? Max Towle investigates.

Women make up fewer than ten percent of candidates standing for election this year in Solomon Islands.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has been re-elected for a second four-year term and faces a raft of challenges in Africa's most populous nation.

Fiji's opposition leader has called the Multinational Observer Group report on the 2018 election, "superficial, shallow and generic". Audio