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Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is rejecting claims it is connected to any report called for the Papua New Guinea Electoral Commissioner, Andrew Trawen, to be urgently replaced.

Fiji's information ministry says action on a new constitution will be announced on Friday as part of measures ahead of elections promised for 2014. Last week, the interim prime minister,...

Green Party co-leader Russel Norman says a proposed referendum on partial asset sales could create political problems for the Government and uncertainty in the sales process.

Vladimir Putin has declared victory in Russia's presidential elections, returning for a third term after spending the last four years as the country's prime minister.

The Papua New Guinea prime minister, Peter O'Neill, has reiterated that his government will not try to defer national elections due in June and July. There have been calls, including...

Fiji's regime leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama says he is considering standing in the promised 2014 polls. He says the man he removed from power, the former prime minister Laisenia Qarase,...

Russian voters go to the polls across several time zones on Sunday to elect a new president. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin faces four challengers.

A survey carried out in the United States suggests airline pilots and train operators are the most likely workers to be hit by sleepiness during a shift.

Iran says initial figures show turnout in parliamentary elections on Friday was 64%. Final figures are expected on Monday.

Polls are now closed in Iran where voting in a parliamentary election on Friday was extended by three hours due to a high turnout. Official results are expected on Sunday or Monday.

The Wairoa District Council has been forced to backtrack on a decision not to hold a poll until next year's local government elections, on whether to introduce Maori wards.

A Marshall Islands senator wants to do away with postal voting rights for citizens living in other countries. In the November 2011 election, more than 2,500 Marshallese living outside the...

Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says the general election will go ahead as scheduled in the middle of the year. This comes as the Electoral Commissioner Andrew Trawen...

Papua New Guinea's Electoral Commissioner says the national election will go ahead in June as scheduled. Andrew Trawen's assertion comes days after the government indicated it was considering…

Nelson ratepayers will have the chance in just over two months' time to decide whether or not a Maori ward will be created in time for the 2013 local government elections.

The Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke has won his third Allan Border medal for the nation's cricketer of the year. That places him second on the all-time list, trailing only...

Sir Michael Somare has warned against delaying Papua New Guinea's General Elections this year. In a statement, Sir Michael says that indications from the government of Peter O'Neill that it...

Dr. Salu Hunkin Finau has kicked off her campaign to be the first woman governor of American Samoa. American Samoa goes to the polls in November, and the current governor,...

The Syrian government is holding a national referendum on a new constitution amid continuing violent unrest and a boycott by the opposition.

Opinion polls in Australian newspapers on Saturday show former Labor leader Kevin Rudd is more popular with voters than current prime minister Julia Gillard.

Papua New Guinean parliamentarians have raised the prospect of delaying the June 2012 elections, with the government questioning figures in the electoral commissioner's report. Tabled in parliament on…