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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Competition change could boost household finances, Leigh to argue Household budgets would be bolstered and cost-of-living pressures would ease under proposed changes to the nation’s competition policy, the federal government says, Australian Associated Press reports. The assistant treasurer, Andrew Leigh, will … Read more

Universities in England should rearrange classrooms and use the Chatham House rule to help students overcome their fears of discussing controversial topics, according to the government’s lead on free speech. Arif Ahmed, the Office for Students’ director of freedom of speech and academic freedom, said there was a significant danger to academic integrity if speech … Read more

Canada’s incoming prime minister, Mark Carney, has met with Justin Trudeau as the pair discuss a transfer of power after the former central banker’s landslide victory at the Liberal party’s leadership race. The meeting on Monday sets the stage for an imminent federal election and gives Canada a fresh leader to square off against the … Read more

The Trump administration has taken an axe to US foreign aid, eliminating 83% of programs run by the US Agency for International Development in a sweeping six-week purge that has done away with entire categories of development work that took decades to build up. Secretary of state Marco Rubio announced the massive cuts on Monday, … Read more

Canadian police have identified the remains of a murdered Indigenous woman at a landfill and found more remains from another person, after a months long search demanded by the families of victims targeted by a serial killer. Police said in a statement they had confirmed that human remains found in the Prairie Green Landfill, north … Read more

A US envoy has said Hamas proposed a five-to-10-year ceasefire and a full prisoner exchange during backroom talks that have provoked angry responses from the administration of Benjamin Netanyahu and his conservative backers in Israel and the US. Adam Boehler, the US special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, told Kan News, an Israeli public broadcaster, … Read more

Rescue teams in Argentina are searching for two girls, aged one and five, who were swept away by severe floods that ripped through Buenos Aires province, killing at least 16 people. A year’s worth of rain fell on the city of Bahía Blanca and the town of Cerri on Friday, rapidly inundating neighbourhoods and destroying … Read more

Donald Trump’s focus on tariffs as an economic weapon is “misguided”, and the US economy is “very wobbly”, a former adviser and longtime supporter of the president said. “I think that the president’s emphasis on tariffs right now is misguided,” Stephen Moore told Fox News on Sunday night. “I think we have a very wobbly … Read more

Free speech organizations and advocates are expressing outrage after a prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protests last year, was arrested and detained over the weekend. Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent US resident with a green card, was taken into custody by federal immigration authorities on Saturday night, who reportedly said that they … Read more

Romania’s far-right presidential frontrunner, Cǎlin Georgescu, has said he will appeal against a decision to bar him from standing in a rerun of the presidential election, calling it “a direct blow to the heart of democracy worldwide”. Georgescu, a Moscow-friendly populist, surged from almost nowhere to win the first round of the country’s presidential election … Read more