Chelsea Mes

Police removed protesters who were attempting to occupy buildings at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Chicago Friday night, as tensions over the Israel-Hamas war once again flared up across college campuses.

A free trade deal between Australia and the European Union is “still a fair way off” but the country remains hopeful a deal will be reached, Australia’s agriculture minister said.

The New Zealand government expects the cost from the devastating cyclone that ravaged the country’s North Island this week to be in the “multi-billions,” Finance Minister Grant Robertson said in an interview with local media Sunday.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will take the national carrier’s first direct flight later this month from Auckland to New York, where she will attend the UN General Assembly.

Democrat and educator Carolyn Bourdeaux beat Republican emergency-room doctor Rich McCormick in the Georgia House race to succeed retiring GOP Representative Rob Woodall, the Associated Press projects.

Australia reported an outbreak of H7N7 bird flu at a free-range egg farm in the state of Victoria.

President Trump had dinner with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and board member Peter Thiel during Zuckerberg’s October visit to Washington, NBC reported, the second meeting between Trump and the Facebook founder in recent months.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said if Democrats win control of the chamber next year, he would put an ambitious plan on the floor to remove gas-powered vehicles from American roads by 2040.

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said the U.S. is firmly against China’s “destabilizing” behavior in the Indo-Pacific region and won’t stand by while one country reshapes the area, continuing a war of words between the superpowers.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said that the U.S. would rejoin the Iran nuclear agreement if she were elected president.