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A top ranking officer in the Fiji military has candidates on the campaign trail to be cautious ahead of next month's polls.

The unsuccessful candidate for a senior post at the WHO says he probably would've gotten the job if some Pacific countries hadn't been paid off. Audio

Fewer than one in five of the provisional election candidates nominated by Fiji's three major political parties are women.

Pop star Taylor Swift's decision to wade into electoral politics for the first time has driven a spike in online voter registration, according to the website Vote.org.

The ruling FijiFirst Party does not have any competition heading into the 14 November polls, a government minister says.

It's shaping up to be the Year of the Sheep at A&P shows in Northland this season, with concerns over Mycoplasma bovis risk.

Anti-independence politicians in New Caledonia are dismayed they have been called to be part of an axis of evil.

The leader of one of Fiji's political parties, Sitiveni Rabuka, who faces a court trial next week, says he's prepared to face the law.

New see-through ballot boxes and single ballot papers have been brought in for the general election in American Samoa next month.

The far-right candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, has won the first round of Brazil's presidential election.

The pro-independence Caledonian Union says it will discuss the territory's sovereignty directly with the French state, if referendum fails.

A New Zealand activist in the United States says critics of the newest Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh, will rally harder than before as the mid-term elections loom, on 6 November.

A Fiji opposition party leader says claims that a recent act of vandalism defacing the PM's image was motivated by the opposition is "ridiculous".

The French High Commission in New Caledonia has banned the sale of alcoholic beverages in shops for the first weekend of November.

The French High Commission to New Caledonia says should voters choose independence from France, the remaining powers held by Paris will be ceded.

Another opinion poll suggests that an overwhelming majority in New Caledonia will next month reject independence from France.

New Zealand NBA basketballer Steven Adams is again the player to watch out for in the NBA.

International observers of Fiji's elections say their main aim is to ensure Fiji's elections are free and fair.

France's former prime minister Manuel Valls has expressed optimism about the future of New Caledonia as it nears a referendum on independence.

The president of New Caledonia's Congress has removed the Kanak flag from the reception area of the presidency.

Several political parties in Fiji are still discussing forming a partnership to fight the next election according to the leader of the Freedom Alliance Party.