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The federal government has tapped a panel of five experts to craft the path toward a universal pharmacare program. Dr. Nav Persaud, the Canada Research Chair in health justice, will chair a committee that includes a variety of health-care professionals…

Australia’s former opposition leader Bill Shorten says he’s given up his dream of becoming prime minister but wants to stay in public life and represent people for decades. Bill Shorten has taken responsibility for Labor’s shock election loss, admitting the…

The small Polynesian state is the world’s lowest-lying nation and is threatened by climate change, according to its government and the United Nations. In one of his first actions since arriving at the Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Tonga, Australian…