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The National Party continues to hold a commanding lead over the Labour Party in the latest political poll.

Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says by-elections due to be held this weekend cannot be considered entirely free and fair because of voting irregularities.

The Papua New Guinea police chief Tom Kulunga says nearly 9 thousand personnel from Police, Defence and Correctional Services are expected to provide security for this year's election. Mr Kulunga...

Two New Zealand Breakers players have won a place on the Australian National Basketball's League's all-star First Team following the completion of the regular season. Breakers players Tom Abercrombie…

The New Zealand Breakers coach Andrej Lemanis has been named coach of the year for the Australian National Basketball League. Lemanis polled 53 votes to narrowly take out the Lindsay...

The Perth Wildcats import Kevin Lisch has won the Australian National Basketball League's Andrew Gaze Trophy for the Most Valuable Player of the season. The American guard took the award...

Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has defended his government's controversial new powers to suspend judges. The government last week rushed through parliament the Judicial Conduct Bill…

As voting finished in Queensland on Saturday, early exit polls showed a devastating result for Labor that could end the party's 14-year reign in the Australian state.

A 23-year-old man suspected of killing seven people in France has been shot dead as he scrambled out of a ground floor apartment window during a gunbattle with police.

As a new session of Parliament begins in Papua New Guinea MPs are being called on not to consider deferring the June election. Parliament sat Tuesday afternoon amid a push...

East Timorese president Jose Ramos-Horta has lost his bid for a second term, failing to make it to the run-off in the country's second presidential vote as a free nation, according to provisional…

Papua New Guinea's rival attorney general, Sir Arnold Amet, has welcomed Australia's concerns following the adjourned debate on deferring this year's general elections. Australia's Foreign Minister…

The people of East Timor are voting in only its second presidential election as a free country.

Papua New Guinea's deputy prime minister has reversed his position on the general election, saying the poll will go ahead as scheduled. Belden Namah inflamed speculation of a delayed poll...

Papua New Guinea's High Commissioner in Canberra says he's surprised and disappointed by Australia threatening sanctions if elections are delayed. The new Australian foreign minister, Bob Carr, has…

The Fiji Islands Council of Trade Unions says the next election should be conducted by an interim civilian government under the 1997 constitution. Its general secretary, Attar Singh, says Fiji...

The Taliban has vowed to carry out revenge attacks, including threatening to beheading US troops, for the rampage by an American soldier in Afghanistan who shot 16 people. Audio

Wairoa District Council agreed on Tuesday to provide $25,000 from its development fund to pay for a poll on whether to introduce Maori wards.

Transparency International Papua New Guinea says it is seriously wrong for MPs to thinking about delaying the June elections. This follows a newspaper advertisement in which the Speaker of…

The Ports of Auckland says it is too late for the Auckland mayor to be offering to mediate in the company's dispute with the Maritime Union.

Thousands of Russians have taken to the streets to protest against Vladimir Putin's presidential election victory, but their numbers were far fewer than in previous weeks.

Fiji's military regime has announced the process of consultations on a new constitution for elections expected in 2014. It will replace the 1997 constitution which the regime abolished three years...

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has crowned a string of primary victories with a win in the crucial state of Ohio.