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A viral cookie shop has confirmed it will be opening in Australia after a saga saw fans of the company import the tasty treats and sell them at a controversial Bondi "pop-up" shop.

Crumbl has now said it will "accelerate" plans to bring the creations, which it has collaborated on with stars including Kylie Jenner, to the nation.

"Crumbl has been inspired to accelerate plans to provide all dessert-loving Aussies, with a true Crumbl experience," it said in a statement.

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"As Crumbl continues to grow its global footprint, the company remains dedicated to its core values of experience, relationships, authenticity, and innovation.

"Crumbl is thrilled to expand its mission of gathering friends and family over the best desserts in the world to Aussie fans."

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The company said it'll share social media updates on where and when it will open.

Last month, hundreds of cookie fans lined up in Bondi to buy Crumbl cookies, with a pop-up shop promoted on Instagram and TikTok.

But it later emerged it was not official, with the people behind it confirming they bought the goods in Hawaii and brought them back to Australia to sell.

They said they were just "fans" of the brand, though some shoppers said they were duped.

The cookies usually cost around $6, but were being sold for $17.50 each.

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Lawyers claimed they "don't have a leg to stand on" if the company takes action.

Crumbl said it was "in no way affiliated" with the Bondi sale.

The company, which is a franchise, was founded in 2017 in Logan, Utah, by Jason McGowan and Sawyer Hemsley.

It has 1000 shops in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico.

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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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