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Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals Sunday, significantly increasing the size of the College of Cardinals and further cementing his mark on the group of prelates who will one day elect his successor.

They include a man who will be the oldest cardinal — Monsignor Angelo Acerbi, a 99-year-old retired Vatican diplomat who was once held hostage for six weeks in Colombia by leftist guerrillas — and the youngest — the 44-year-old head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Melbourne, Australia, Bishop Mykola Bychok, named in a nod to the ongoing war in Ukraine.

The new cardinals will get their red hats at a ceremony, known as a consistory, on December 8, an important feast day on its own that officially kicks off the Christmas season in Rome.

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It will be Francis' 10th consistory to create new princes of the church and the biggest infusion of voting-age cardinals into the college in Francis' 11-year pontificate.

Acerbi is the only one of the new intake who is over 80 and hence too old to vote for new pope.

Usually the college has a limit of 120 on voting-age cardinals but popes often exceed the cap temporarily to keep the body robust as existing cardinals age out. As of Sept. 28, there were 122 cardinal-electors; that means the new infusion brings their numbers up to 142.

Among those named by history's first Latin American pope were the heads of several major dioceses and archdioceses in South America.

They are the archbishop of Santiago del Estero, Argentina, Vicente Bokalic Iglic; the archbishop of Porto Alegre, Brazil, Jaime Spengler; the archbishop of Santiago, Chile, Fernando Natalio Chomali Garib; the archbishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador, Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera; and the archbishop of Lima, Peru, Carlos Gustavo Castillo Mattasoglio.

That stands in sharp contrast to the lone new cardinal from North America: the archbishop of Toronto, Francis Leo.

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Showing the universality of the church around the world, Francis also tapped the archbishop of Tehran, Iran, Monsignor Dominique Joseph Mathieu, and the bishop of Bogor, Indonesia, Monsignor Paskalis Bruno Syukor. They both belong to the Franciscan religious order and are two of the four new Franciscan cardinals.

In addition to Syukor, Asia gets two more cardinals in Monsignor Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, the archbishop of Tokyo; and Monsignor Pablo Virgilio Sinogco David, the bishop of Kalookan, Philippines.

Aside from Asia the other region where the church is growing is Africa, which got two new cardinals: the archbishop of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Monsignor Ignace Bessi Dogbo, and the bishop of Algiers, Algeria, Monsignor Jean-Paul Vesco.

"Francis has again continued to extend the reach of the college of cardinals," said Christopher Bellitto, a church historian at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. "Like his predecessors, but even more so, he's making sure that Catholic leaders from the church's edges have a voice at the big table."

Even before Sunday's announcement, Francis had already named the vast majority of the voting-age cardinals who will one day vote in a conclave. According to Vatican statistics, before Sunday, 92 of the cardinals under 80 had been named by Francis, compared with 24 named by Pope Benedict XVI and six by St. John Paul II.

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Added to their ranks on Sunday were two Vatican officials who hold positions that don't usually carry with them a cardinal's rank: the official in charge of the migrants section of the Vatican development office, the Rev. Fabio Baggio, and the official who organises the pope's foreign travels, the Rev. George Jacob Koovakad.

In a nod to the current synod underway at the Vatican this month debating the future of the church, Francis also tapped the Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, a British theologian who is one of the spiritual advisers for the meeting.

Bellitto said it was "nonsense" to read the new cardinals as Francis doing something unique to try to stack the deck. "Every school superintendent, president, and prime minister picks people in their image to help their vision," he said in an email.

The nomination of Bychok gave Ukraine its only cardinal and sent a subtle political message as Russia's war grinds on. Ukraine's ambassador to the Holy See, Andrii Yurash, praised the nomination, even though Francis chose the head of Ukraine's Greek Catholic Church in Australia over the Kyiv-based head, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk.

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Nearly 6300 people have fled their homes in the aftermath of an attack in central Haiti by heavily armed gang members that killed at least 70 people, according to the UN's migration agency.

Nearly 90 per cent of the displaced are staying with relatives in host families, while 12 per cent have found refuge in other sites including a school, the International Organisation for Migration said in a report last week.

The attack in Pont-Sondé happened in the early hours of Thursday morning, and many left in the middle of the night.

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Gang members "came in shooting and breaking into the houses to steal and burn. I just had time to grab my children and run in the dark," said 60-year-old Sonise Mirano on Sunday, who was camping with hundreds of people in a park in the nearby coastal city of Saint-Marc.

Bodies lay strewn on the streets of Pont-Sondé following the attack in the Artibonite region, many of them killed by a shot to the head, Bertide Harace, spokeswoman for the Commission for Dialogue, Reconciliation and Awareness to Save the Artibonite, told Magik 9 radio station on Friday.

Initial estimates put the number of those killed at 20 people, but activists and government officials discovered more bodies as they accessed areas of the town.

Among the victims was a young mother, her newborn baby and a midwife, Herace said.

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Prime Minister Garry Conille vowed that the perpetrators would face the full force of the law in comments in Saint-Marc on Friday.

"It is necessary to arrest them, bring them to justice, and put them in prison. They need to pay for what they have done, and the victims need to receive restitution," he said.

The UN Human Rights Office of the Commissioner said in a statement that it was "horrified by Thursday's gang attacks".

The European Union also condemned the violence in a statement on Friday, which it said marked "yet another escalation in the extreme violence these criminal groups are inflicting on the Haitian people".

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Haiti's government deployed an elite police unit based in the capital of Port-au-Prince to Pont-Sondé following the attack and sent medical supplies to help the area's lone, and overwhelmed, hospital.

Police will remain in the area for as long as it takes to guarantee safety, Conille said, adding that he didn't know whether it would take a day or a month.

He also appealed to the population, saying "the police cannot do it alone".

Gang violence across Artibonite, which produces much of Haiti's food, has increased in recent years.

Since that uptick, Thursday's attack is one of the biggest massacres.

Similar ones have taken place in the capital of Port-au-Prince, 80 per cent of which is controlled by gangs, and they typically are linked to turf wars, with gang members targeting civilians in areas controlled by rivals.

Many neighbourhoods are not safe, and people affected by the violence have not been able to return home, even if their houses have not been destroyed.

More than 700,000 people — more than half of whom are children — are now internally displaced across Haiti, according to the International Organisation for Migration in an October 2 statement.

That was an increase of 22 per cent since June.

Port-au-Prince hosts a quarter of the country's displaced, often residing in overcrowded sites, with little to no access to basic services, the agency said.

Those forced to flee their homes are mostly being accommodated by families, who have reported significant difficulties, including food shortages, overwhelmed healthcare facilities, and a lack of essential supplies on local markets, according to the agency.

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More than 800 Qantas customer bookings may have had their frequent flyer points stolen and booking details accessed in a third-party fraud attack, the airline has confirmed.

Customers at multiple global airlines, including hundreds of Qantas customers, had frequent flyer points accessed or redirected from their accounts over several weeks in July.

Qantas issued an apology over the fraudulent activity, which allegedly came from "rogue" third-party contractors working for an airport in India.

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It is understood that two contractors have been suspended from their jobs, and Indian police have opened an investigation into the incident.

The two men are accused of having accessed customer bookings and making unauthorised changes, in an attempt to redirect frequent flyer points to an account they controlled.

Multiple airlines around the world were reportedly caught in the breach.

The booking information that was accessed by the suspected fraudsters included passport numbers.

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A Qantas spokesperson issued an apology to its customers.

"We apologise to our customers who have been caught up in this fraudulent activity, which has impacted a number of airlines," they said.

 "As soon as we became aware of this, we worked closely with our airline partners to secure their systems to prevent this issue from happening again.

 "Customers have received the full amount of points and status credits they were entitled to for their travel."

Qantas stressed the attack was not related to cybersecurity.

"This was not a cyber hack or data theft, but a case of two rogue employees of one of our suppliers abusing their position to fraudulently steal frequent flyer points," the airline said.

Qantas said the activity stopped in August, with all frequent flyer points returned to customers.

No current Qantas bookings are thought to be impacted.

It is understood the changes to customer bookings were made using other airline's booking systems, with affected airlines since restricting the way changes can be made to frequent flyer details.

The police investigation in India is ongoing.

Australians are increasingly struggling to make ends meet amid the cost-of-living crisis, with 1 in 5 now saying money has become a daily stress, a new national survey has found.

The survey of 3000 Australians was conducted by Compare the Market for its 2024 Household Budget Barometer report.

It found 46 per cent of people were dealing with financial worries at least once a week.

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One in 5 respondents said their savings were going backwards, while 15 per cent were now in debt or are seeing their existing debt grow.

Inflation has been above the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) target range of 2-3 per cent for 11 consecutive quarters, a trend expected to continue until mid-2025.

Over the twelve months to the June 2024 quarter, the Consumer Price Index rose 3.8 per cent.

Compare the Market Economic Director David Koch said everyday costs, not luxury items, were causing the most distress.

"Most people aren't overstretching or living beyond their means, they are just trying to get by, but it's the rising cost of essential items that is killing them," Koch said.

Australians are now spending a third more on their groceries than they were six months ago, according to the report.

The median grocery spend was $200 in August 2024, compared with $150 in January 2024.

The increase may be partly due to some Australians avoiding eating out and choosing to cook more at home.

Median quarterly electricity bills also surged from $300 to $350 during the six months to August, however government rebates are expected to soften the blow in the short term.

While many renters have been hit with hikes over the past 12 months, it was homeowners who were more likely to say their savings had taken a hit.

Interest rates have gone from historic lows to their highest point in a decade. The cash rate hikes mean a family with a $610,000 mortgage is now paying roughly $1,500 more in monthly repayments – or about $18,000 a year.

Despite these financial pressures, a quarter of Australians had not done any shopping around to try and save on their bills, the survey found.

Koch said this could be an easy way for Australians to save some extra cash.

"Because we think we're getting a good deal, we often neglect to look elsewhere and could

be missing out on hundreds of dollars in savings," Koch said. 

"Australians have got to stop paying the loyalty tax and letting bill hikes go through to the keeper."