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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for an early general election in four months.

Voters in the French Pacific have defied the trend in France and backed the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential race. He won a clear majority in both New Caledonia...

The turnout in the second round of France's presidential elections was just over 56% just before 5:00 in New Caledonia, an increase of more than four points from the first...

Polls predict Socialist candidate Francois Hollande will win the presidential election in France despite a late increase in support for incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The polls have opened in Greece for parliamentary elections seen as a referendum on the county's harsh austerity measures.

The military in Egypt has ordered the continued detention of about 300 people arrested during clashes with the security forces on Friday. A curfew is in force again on Saturday night.

Fiji's Acting Prime Minister, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, says Australia's foreign minister, Bob Carr, must have confused Fiji with Burma during a recent meeting in Suva with the Forum Ministerial Contact…

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and challenger Francois Hollande have clashed in their only TV debate of the election campaign.

Papua New Guinea MPs have been warned that failing to register with new political parties they join could create instability after the June elections. MPs can switch party at any...

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sworn in as a member of Myanmar's parliament, a month after her party's sweeping victory in by-elections.

Three of Fiji's leading politicians at the time of the coup in 2006 say there needs to be a fully civilian government in place to take Fiji towards elections promised...

The overwhelming majority of those surveyed by the Privacy Commissioner want the agency to be given the power to stop organisations mis-handling their personal information.

As the French presidential election campaign nears its end, supporters of the Socialists in French Polynesia have derided the incumbent's attachment to the territory. Nicolas Sarkozy's only Pacific…

Fiji's acting regime leader Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has told Pacific Island cabinet ministers a decree criticised for restricting free speech won't be amended as Fiji moves towards elections in 2014…

An opinion poll has found majority support for the proposed convention centre deal in Auckland but only if it includes a reduction in gambling machines elsewhere in the city.

For the next month Nelson City ratepayers will be voting on whether their elected body should include a Maori ward.

Dozens of protestors have been injured in Cairo during a sit-in to demonstrate against the barring of a presidential candidate in Egyptian elections in May.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for tougher borders and a stronger national identity.

A veteran contender of Papua New Guinea elections says she and other female candidates will be warning people of the dangers of succumbing to vote bribery. Last week's United Nations-sponsored...

A first time contender in the Papua New Guinea elections says the extreme suffering of the people in her electorate is the reason she is putting herself forward. Leah Angowai...

Kiwifruit Vine Health has welcomed a decision by growers to support its call for a ban on the practice of notch grafting new kiwifruit varieties onto Hort 16A vines.

Papua New Guinea's trade union leaders, churches and civil society groups met with Prime Minister Peter O'Neill on Thursday and received assurances that the elections would go ahead on time.