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Italy will issue nearly 500,000 new work visas for non-EU nationals from 2026 to 2028, a cabinet statement said on Monday, as part of a strategy to expand legal immigration channels in response to labour shortages, Reuters reported.

A total 164,850 people will be allowed in next year, aiming to reach a cumulative total of 497,550 new entries by 2028.

It is the second such move Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has made since she took office nearly three years ago as the head of a right-wing coalition. The government had already decided to issue over 450,000 permits to migrants between 2023 and 2025.

Alongside rules to allow in new workers, Meloni has taken a tough stance against illegal arrivals, moving to speed up repatriations and curbing the activities of charities rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean, according to Reuters.

Canada will rescind a tax on big US technology firms, just hours before first payments were due, to allow trade talks between the two countries to restart, BBC reported.

On Friday, US President Donald Trump called off negotiations over a trade deal, describing the tax as a "blatant attack", and threatened higher tariffs on imports from Canada.

In response, Canada has said it will introduce legislation to remove the tax and would halt the collection of payments, which were due on Monday. 

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told Fox News on Monday that negotiations between the North American neighbours would "absolutely" restart as a result, according to BBC.

The Israeli military has said it is examining reports of civilians being "harmed" while approaching aid distribution centres in Gaza run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, BBC reported.

Since GHF operations began in late May, following a three-month Israeli blockade on Gaza, there have been almost daily reports from medics, eyewitnesses and the Hamas-run health ministry of Israeli fire killing people seeking aid at these sites.

The UN says more than 400 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid.

The Israeli military said on Monday instructions had been issued to forces after "lessons learned", but did not specify what these lessons were, according to BBC

The Trump administration says that Harvard University violated civil-rights laws over its treatment of Israeli and Jewish students, potentially further endangering its federal funding, BBC reported.

In a letter sent to Harvard, the administration accused the university of deliberate indifference towards the concerns of Jewish students who felt threatened on campus. 

The move is the latest in a series of legal and financial battles between Harvard and the White House - the stakes of which have dramatically escalated over the last few months. 

Harvard says it has made "significant strides" to combat discrimination and "strongly disagrees" with the government's findings, according to BBC

Millions of fans are bidding farewell to Squid Game, the Emmy award-winning TV series that has topped Netflix's charts and become a symbol of South Korea's ascendance in Hollywood, BBC reported.

The fictional show follows cash-strapped players as they battle it out in a series of traditional Korean children's games - with a gory twist, as losers are killed in every round.

Squid Game has sucked in viewers since 2021 with its candy-coloured sets and bleak messages about capitalism and humanity. And with its third and final season released last Friday, fans across the world are returning to reality.

Some South Koreans, however, have found themselves reflecting on the society that inspired the dystopian series, according to BBC.

The US Senate has begun a marathon vote on a sprawling budget that is critical to President Donald Trump's agenda, but the spending plan is hanging in the balance after weeks of fraught negotiations, BBC reported.

Republicans - who control both chambers of Congress - are divided over how much to cut welfare programmes in order to extend tax breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The president's party is sprinting to pass the legislation by this week's self-imposed deadline of the Fourth of July public holiday. 

If the measure does clear the Senate, it will have to go back for another vote to the House of Representatives, which passed its own version of the bill last month by a single vote, according to BBC.

At least 20 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike that hit a popular seafront cafe frequently used by activists, journalists, and local residents in western Gaza on Monday, according to medics and eyewitnesses, BBC reported.

Rescue teams evacuated 20 bodies and dozens wounded from Al-Baqa Cafeteria, an outdoor venue which consisted of tents along the beach, a spokesperson for Gaza's Hamas-run Civil Defence told the BBC.

He added that emergency crews were still searching through a deep crater left by the explosion.

"I was on my way to the café to use the internet just a few meters away when a massive explosion hit," said Aziz Al-Afifi, a cameraman with a local production company, told the BBC.

The Election Commission (EC) has announced the date for the by-election in Rupandehi Constituency- 3. Issuing a press statement today, the EC stated that the by-election in Rupandehi-3 for the House of Representatives (HoR) will be held on November 3. 

The seat of Rupandehi Constituency-3 has been lying vacant after the demise  of HoR Member Dipak Bohara on April 1.  

Bohara was elected as the HoR member from Rupandehi Constituency- 3 by defeating his nearest  rival Bal Krishna Khand of Nepali Congress (NC) in the general election held in November 2022.   

The new date for the by-election was announced as per the constitutional provision stated in Article 84 (7) of the Constitution of Nepal, Spokesperson of EC and Joint Secretary Nita Pokhrel Aryal stated.

As per the constitutional provision, if the seat of any member of the HoR falls vacant while its term still remains for more than six months, the vacancy shall be filled in the same manner of electoral system as in which such seat was filled in.

In a separate notice, the EC announced today that voter's name list registration would be postponed from July 1 until further notice after the date announcement for the by-election.