Every country should play a part in confronting extremism, Prime Minister John Key said at a peace conference in Istanbul today.

Prime Minister John Key reaffirmed New Zealand's role in fighting terror threats in the Middle East at the International Peace Summit in Istanbul overnight.

Embassies representing prisoners on death row with Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have been summoned to a meeting.

Trade Minister Tim Groser says he is going to assume until proved otherwise that the Obama Administration would not have submitted the bill unless it had the numbers to pass it, writes Jane Kelsey. That is disingenuous.

The men allegedly planning to attack police and bystanders in Melbourne on Anzac Day have been linked to Isis' most senior Australian fighter.

One of the things I love most about China is that whenever you see a traffic jam there's always an old bloke on an impossibly rickety bicycle picking his way through the chaos.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrived in New Zealand last night for Anzac centenary events and talks on the military mission to Iraq.

The choice of Dr Karl Kruszelnicki - one of Australia's best known and most highly respected science broadcasters - to front the ad campaign is backfiring on the Government.

I am in England on the Duke of Edinburgh's Commonwealth Study Conference with 100 senior leaders from 22 countries around the Commonwealth.

A former British diplomat has accused Hillary Clinton of contributing to Iraq's disastrous meltdown during her four years as Barack Obama's foreign policy chief.

The Syrian Government has been accused of again using chemical weapons against civilians as fighting intensifies with fresh rebel attacks in the north of the country.

David Cameron was stumped when a 10-year-old girl asked him the toughest question of the election campaign so far.

Hillary Clinton hits the road in a humble van to her first campaign appearance since declaring on she is joining the 2016 race for president.

Hillary Clinton would be a good political partner for NZ if she became the US president, Prime Minister John Key says.

President Barack Obama and President Raul Castro symbolically ended more than a half-century of official estrangement between the countries yesterday in a historic-face-to-face meeting.

Hillary Clinton would make a fine US president, Barack Obama said on the eve of the expected launch of her candidacy for the Democratic Party's nod in 2016.

The Australian federal Government has rejected claims that it was told about multiple allegations of child sexual abuse more than a year before it commissioned an inquiry.

Fran O'Sullivan on governor Lu Hao - widely tipped to be a major player in Beijing's "next generation" leadership - who was in NZ yesterday.

The Prime Minister of Fiji, Frank Bainimarama, has repeated his call for New Zealand to be kicked out of the Pacific region's main decision-making body.

Two Australians on death row will face a firing squad after a Jakarta court rejected their bid to appeal against the Indonesian President's clemency refusal.

Pressure is mounting for the abolition of a law allowing Queenslanders who kill homosexuals to have a murder charge reduced by arguing that their victim propositioned them.

Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan have lost their appeal in Indonesia to challenge the decision to deny them clemency.

The Governor of Indiana has caved in to national criticism and promised to revise a controversial law that some say discriminates against gay people.

Either a former dictator or a "weak" leader could emerge as President of Africa's most populous nation this morning.

The White House is investigating reports that President Barack Obama's passport details, with those of other world leaders, were leaked before last November's G20 meeting in Brisbane - and that....