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Australia's government has abandoned a refugee-swap deal with Malaysia and says it will now process asylum-seekers on Australian soil.

The head of Tower Investments is calling for KiwiSaver contributions to more than triple over the next decade, as the country grapples with high foreign debt and low savings.

Ngati Hine in Northland has failed in a legal attempt to have its Waitangi Tribunal claims removed from a comprehensive proposal, for which the Ngapuhi Runanga-led board of Te Ropu o Tuhoronuku has…

An academic at the Lowy Institute has hit back at the Australian government's criticism that its recent poll in Fiji is flawed. The Sydney-based think tank's Jenny Hayward-Jones says unless...

Vanuatu's Pacific Institute of Public Policy is launching a series of townhall meetings across the country in the lead up to next year's election. The Institute says it hopes to...

British aid agencies are nervous that women's rights might be traded away during peace talks in Afghanistan.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has shrugged off a credit downgrade as his government retains a substantial lead in opinion polls.

A new poll indicates the race for the Maori seats in the general election will be a tough one. Audio

Labour leader Phil Goff does not believe the gap between his party and National is too wide to close. Audio

The National Party continues to hold a commanding lead over the Labour Party in two opinion polls out on Sunday.

A poll of Maori voters shows more than half of those surveyed believe the Maori Party has represented them well.

President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia says he decided not to run for a second term because Vladimir Putin is both more popular and more authoritative.

The Kenyan deputy prime minster, Uhuru Kenyatta, has appeared in person before the International Criminal Court at The Hague, to deny charges in connection with the killings that followed the 2007…

Nominations for the general elections in Kiribati close tomorrow, following which ballot papers will be printed and delivered to the 23 electoral districts. The country is due to go to...

The President of Kiribati, Anote Tong is optimistic he will return to power when the country goes to the polls next month. The country is due to vote on the...

Parliament in Spain has been dissolved and 20 November has been set as the date for an early general election. Opinion polls predict the ruling party will lose by a wide margin.

The number of New Zealand women who are deficient in iron has doubled in the past decade. One in 14 women over the age 15 have low iron levels.

A Maori investor leading an iwi bid for a stake in the Crafar Farms wants a poll to be taken to find out what New Zealanders think of strategic assets being sold to foreign investors.