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National Australia Bank will cut up to 2,500 jobs, about 6% of its workforce, with 1,500 going before the end of 2026, prompting union anger and questions about the role of AI.
Papua New Guinean students aged 18 to 25 can apply to join the Australian Defence Force from 16 November under a A$65 million pilot, the first major step under the Pukpuk Treaty alliance.
Britain will send RAF Typhoon jets, an A400M transport and military advisers to help protect Saudi Arabia from escalating Houthi missile and drone attacks, while insisting the mission is purely defensive.
Brent crude touched a five-month high near $112 a barrel after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said their mines struck tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and the Houthis claimed new attacks on Saudi energy sites.
Field Marshal Asim Munir held talks with Iran’s president and senior officials in Tehran, but Iranian leaders restated tough conditions as fears grow of renewed US-Iran fighting after the US midterms.
Brazil’s presidential runoff on 25 October looks too close to call, with polls giving Flávio Bolsonaro a narrow lead over Lula as sovereignty, US tariffs and corruption dominate the final week.
Provisional results show around three-quarters of Albertans voted to remain in Canada in the province’s first separation referendum, handing Mark Carney a major win, though separatists say their campaign will go on.
France has extended targeted overnight curfews in Paris, Marseille, Lyon and other cities after riots and looting following cost-of-living protests. Here is where they apply and what happens next.
A Houthi ballistic missile strike on al-Alam camp in Yemen’s Shabwa province killed at least 73 security recruits, local authorities say, in the deadliest incident since the war escalated.
Google and McKinsey have agreed to buy 320,000 tonnes of carbon removal from Working Trees, which plants trees into cattle pastures in Brazil’s Amazon and Cerrado. Here is how silvopasture works and the questions it faces.
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