MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – A shark fatally mauled a diver off an Australian tourist island on Saturday, police said. The 38-year-old man had been spearfishing with a friend when he was attacked on a coral reef off Rottnest Island near Australia’s southwest coast, Western Australia Police Sergeant Michael Wear said.
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. stock market bounced back after pressure eased on Wall Street from the bond market. The S&P 500 climbed 1.1% Wednesday. The Dow Jones added 1.3%, and the Nasdaq composite rallied 1.5%. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell back below 4.60% as the price of Brent crude oil dropped 5.6%.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – Australia identified a neo-Nazi network as the second organization being banned under its new law criminalizing hate groups and support for them. The group, formerly known as the National Socialist Network and sometimes called White Australia, said it would disband after the government in January passed the law allowing certain organizations to be banned.
BEIJING (AP) – Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed their strategic ties and growing energy trade as they met in Beijing Wednesday only days after a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump to China. Putin and Xi oversaw the signing of more than 40 cooperation agreements.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – Six passengers from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak arrived Friday in Australia for a quarantine expected to last at least three weeks. The Gulfstream long-range business jet carrying them from the Netherlands landed at RAAF Base Pearce outside the Western Australia state capital, Perth.
LONDON (AP) – The U.K. government has delayed some new sanctions on Russian oil in an effort to shelter Britons from the cost-of-living squeeze triggered by the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz in the Iran war. A trade license that came into effect Wednesday permits the import of Russian oil that has been refined into jet fuel and diesel in third countries such as India and Turkey.
Australian striker Sam Kerr says she’s leaving Chelsea after six-plus seasons. Kerr, whose contract with the club is up at the end of this season, announced she is departing in a video she posted on social media, appearing with her 1-year-old son, Jagger.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – Australia has announced its first World Cup women’s cricket squad since the retirement of Alyssa Healy, with Ashleigh Gardner confirmed Wednesday as one of two vice-captains after being overlooked for the captaincy earlier this year.
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