Top Asian News 3:53 a.m. GMT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Opposition leader Bill Shorten has used his center-left Labor Party's official campaign launch to cast July 2 general elections as a referendum on the future of Australia's universal health care system. A Labor government introduced government-funded Medicare in 1983 to provide free or subsidized health care for all Australian citizens and permanent residents. Shorten argued on Sunday that the conservative coalition plans to privatize Medicare — a claim Pri