SYDNEY - Australia's second-largest supermarket, Coles, on Wednesday halted plans to charge shoppers for plastic bags, succumbing to customer fury about a shift away from single-use plastics.
TAMPA, Florida - US President Donald Trump has suggested that talks with Iran were imminent, but the idea has been criticized in Teheran, with the country's foreign minister warning that "PR stunts won't work".
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia - Paul Manafort, former chairman of Donald Trump's presidential election campaign team, went on trial on charges of bank and tax fraud on Tuesday.
Figures released by the United Kingdom government have revealed that the number of sick days taken by British workers is the lowest since records began.
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's ruling party has won a majority of seats in parliament, the electoral commission announced on Wednesday, as the country braced for the official results of the first presidential election after longtime leader Robert Mugabe left office in November.
TOKYO - More than 300 people died in July from weather-related disasters in one of Japan's deadliest months in recent years.
BANGKOK - Kneeling before his homemade metal scuba helmet, Bhoomin Samang prays for good fortune before he dives into the day's work - scouring the bed of Bangkok's Chao Phraya river for sunken treasure.
MATARAM, Indonesia - More than 500 hikers and their guides have been successfully evacuated from an Indonesian volcano after a deadly earthquake triggered landslides that trapped them on the mountain, officials said on Tuesday.
PARIS - Power was finally restored to a key Paris rail station three days after a crippling fire disrupted the holiday plans of thousands of people on a crucial midsummer weekend.
Charities working in the overseas aid sector are guilty of "complacency" that is "verging on complicity" in sexual abuse carried out by aid workers, according to a highly critical report from members of Parliament in the United Kingdom.
The US proposal for the Indo-Pacific economic strategy may not be conducive to the development of the region nor in line with the so-called principle of "free" and "open", if Washington still adheres to a Cold War mentality and zero-sum mindset, Chinese experts said
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