Sydney - Police in Australia and Canada arrested four people accused of trying to extort a senior Iraqi politician, after what was described Wednesday as a year-long campaign of intimidation.

Brisbane - An Australian university student who has never visited China and has only a modest social media following would seem an unlikely target for the Chinese government.

Canada's government will spend the next month consulting with Canadians about which U.S. metals products to target with retaliatory tariffs as a new trade dispute flares up, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Friday.

Target stores will be closed on Thanksgiving due to the coronavirus pandemic, joining Dick's Sporting Goods and Walmart - but plan to start rolling out its biggest deals of the year in stores and online in October.

Vancouver - Vancouver resident Trixie Ling recalls her disgust and anger after a passing stranger taunted her with racial and sexual slurs in early May. Then he spat on her face.

Fpo - Here are the latest developments in Asia related to the novel coronavirus pandemic: - No annual growth target for virus-hit China, a first in years -China's communist rulers avoided setting an annual growth target for the first time in decades, as they...

Apo - EU leaders agreed Friday to a target of making the bloc carbon neutral by 2050, but the deal was immediately undermined by Poland's refusal to implement the aim.

Apo - European Union leaders will push Thursday "to advance work" towards setting a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to a draft resolution.

Target announced its fourth quarter earnings this morning, with brick-and-mortar sales growth of nearly 3 percent, and online sales growth of 31 percent. The growth in both areas show changing consumer preferences.

Target will raise its starting wage to $15 an hour in the near future. During Target's 2018 earnings call, CEO Brian Cornell announced that the starting wage would get a boost by 2020.

Civil-liberties and racialized-community advocates are slamming Canada’s new impaired driving laws, saying they put excessive powers in the hands of officers to target people who already face over-policing.

Paris - More than half of all countries will likely fail to hit the UN target of reducing premature deaths from a quartet of chronic diseases by a third before 2030, researchers said Friday.

Minneapolis - In 2017 Target began pilot projects of a new service called Drive Up. The service allows customers to place their orders through a Target app. They then pick up their orders at a Target store and have it delivered to their car.

Next Canada has launched a web platform to deliver important communication tools to Canada's growing artificial intelligence community. Canada.ai will host the latest news and events impacting the Canadian AI sector.

Atenas - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Saturday said his government was "on target" for a May 22 fiscal deal with its creditors to enable the country to meet July loan payments.

Toronto - Given a title like “Everything Is Great Again”, you know Donald Trump’s presidency is taking some shots in the new Toronto Second City show, which opened last night. But as easy a target as he is, the Orange One is surprisingly absent.

Atlanta - Thieves in Atlanta went on an electronics theft spree after they gained entry into a Target store. They managed to get in by cutting a hole in the roof.

Minneapolis - Target Corporation ended its pilot project of placing miniature shopping carts for children in some stores. The kids loved them but the small carts came under fire from parents, employees and other shoppers and their views were made known on social media.

Yulee - When a man came up to Candice Spivey in a Target store, she recognized him as the man who harassed her a couple of years before in another store. The man ran and Spivey chased after him while videotaping the pursuit.

'Tis the season to lash out at retailers, and that is exactly what's happening today after Target stores came out with their "Obsessive Christmas Disorder" sweaters. Move over Starbucks, it's time to attack Target.