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The Vanuatu Supreme Court is to announce its decision on the legality of the dissolution of parliament next Wednesday.

A petition calling for US presidential candidate Donald Trump to be barred from entering the UK has gathered more than 300,000 names.

Time magazine has named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its "Person of the Year".

Donald Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric is "beyond the pale" and the Republicans must clean house, a former member of President George W. Bush's senior staff tells RNZ. Audio

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has provoked condemnation from across the political spectrum, after he said Muslims should be banned from entering the US.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for a "total and complete" halt to Muslims entering the US, in the wake of the deadly California shootings.

French voters go to the polls in regional elections with the far-right National Front hoping to make gains three weeks after the Paris attacks.

OPINION: The Japanese are sharpening their harpoons and resuming their whale hunt for 'science'. Toby Manhire and Toby Morris smell something fishy.

The National Party continues to hold the dominant position in RNZ's Poll of Polls - comfortably ahead of Labour and the Greens combined.

OPINION: RNZ National's Dean Bedford is at the first day-night test in Adelaide and gives his verdict verdict on pink balls and tests matches under lights.

30 young Ethnic Leaders from across the country to be recognised for the first time at Parliament by the Minister of Ethnic Communities. These young leaders plan to make a difference.

Centre-right opposition candidate Mauricio Macri has won the presidential election run-off election in Argentina, according to exit polls.

A candidate seeking the Republican party's nomination to contest the United States presidency, Ben Carson, would appoing a special assistant in charge of communications with the territories if he is…

France's Constitutional Council has rejected a bid by an unsuccessful French Polynesian candidate for a French Senate seat to have the election voided.

Voting on a new New Zealand flag design begins today, but John Key admits the National Party's own polling shows people prefer the current flag. Audio

OPINION: The Tobys look at the facts, fiction and conspiracy silliness that has bubbled to the surface in the aftermath of the Paris attacks.

Monday's elections in the Marshall Islands appear to have drawn a large turnout of voters, but it will be two weeks until the results are known because of the high number of postal votes.