HANOI -- The northern region of Vietnam continued to experience poor air quality as of Tuesday morning, with private air quality network PAM Air declaring the conditions as "unhealthy" and "very unhealthy."
Dozens of air monitoring stations in some northern localities, including Hanoi city, Hung Yen and Thai Nguyen provinces, reported the Air Quality Index (AQI) as red (AQI 151-200, "unhealthy"). (Vietnam-Air Pollution)
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ISLAMABAD -- Eight people were injured and scores of others went missing under the rubbles following a landslide at the Torkham border in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, rescue sources said.
The incident happened at about 3:50 a.m. local time due to lightning at the border area near Afghanistan, sources from the state-owned Rescue 1122 told Xinhua. (Pakistan-Landslide)
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SYDNEY -- Woolworths, one of Australia's major supermarkets, has begun removing 15-cent (about 10 cents in U.S. dollars) reusable plastic shopping bags from shelves in three states.
"Over the coming weeks, the supermarket will gradually run down stock of the 15-cent reusable plastic shopping bags across New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, in a move that will see more than 9,000 tonnes of plastic removed from circulation annually across the country," the supermarket chain said in a statement on Monday. (Australia-Supermarket-Plastic Bags)
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NEW DELHI -- Apple Inc on Tuesday opened a store in India's financial capital Mumbai, the first retail store in India.
Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook came to India to mark the formal launch of the company's first retail store in the South Asian country. (India-Apple Store)
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KARUIZAWA, Japan -- Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) nations on Tuesday vowed to address global challenges, including climate change, pollution, loss of biodiversity, health, and food and energy security, through collective action.
In a communique released after their three-day meeting in the resort town of Karuizawa in central Japan, the top diplomats called on all partners to join in addressing these pressing global challenges and to work together to build a better, more prosperous, and more secure future. (Japan-G7-Communique) ■
