France to Beef Up Emergency Alert System on Social Media
France’s Interior Ministry announced plans on Tuesday to beef up its emergency alert system to the public across social media....
Trump to Impose Tariffs on $50B of China’s Tech Goods
The White House says it plans to impose 25 percent tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese goods that contain “industrially-significant...
Starbucks to Close Stores for Anti-Bias Training
In an effort to stem the outcry over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores, Starbucks...
Starbucks Training a First Step, Experts Say, in Facing Bias
Starbucks will close more than 8,000 stores nationwide Tuesday to conduct anti-bias training, the next of many steps the company...
China Rejects US Charge of "Forced Technology Transfer’ at WTO
China told the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement body on Monday that U.S. accusations that Beijing forced companies to hand...
New Zealand Begins Mass Cull to Eradicate Cow Disease
New Zealand will slaughter more than 100,000 cows in an effort to eradicate a bacterial disease. The government and agricultural...
Companies Look to Space As the Next Frontier
The Trump administration is trying to give private companies a boost in their efforts to capitalize on space as a...
Vietnam Is Following China in its Economic Development
Vietnam is imitating China in its efforts to grow economically and lags its larger neighbor only by about a decade,...
Businesses Looking At Space as the Next Frontier
Space X recently launched another rocket from California carrying satellites into space – accelerating interest by more businesses and research...
New York Clothing Store Sells Gender Neutral Lifestyle
New shops appear in New York City every day, but Phluid Project, which recently opened its doors on Broadway, is...
Russia, Turkey OK Pipeline Deal, End Gas Dispute
Russian state gas giant Gazprom said Saturday it had signed a protocol with the Turkish government on a planned gas...
Italy’s President Pressured to Accept Euroskeptic Minister
Italy’s would-be coalition parties turned up the pressure on President Sergio Mattarella on Saturday to endorse their euroskeptic pick as economy minister, saying...
Kenya Moves to Regulate Digital-Fueled Lending Craze
Kenya built a reputation as a pioneer of financial inclusion through its early adoption of a mobile money system that...
Markets Disrupted as Italy’s Populists Negotiate Cabinet
Italy’s prime minister-designate, Giuseppe Conte, a political novice and obscure law professor accused of padding his resume, put the finishing...
FBI: Foreign Hackers Have Compromised Home Router Devices
The FBI warned on Friday that foreign cybercriminals had compromised “hundreds of thousands” of home and small-office router devices around...
Discharged and Jobless: US Veterans Seek Change in Hiring Rules
Military veterans who were discharged for relatively minor offenses say they often can’t get jobs, and they hope a recent...
Broadcom’s Tan, CBS’s Moonves Among Highest-Paid CEOs
Here are the highest-paid CEOs for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm. The...
Amazon’s Alexa Accidentally Tapes, Shares Family Chat With Contact
A Portland, Oregon, family has learned what happens when Amazon.com Inc’s popular voice assistant Alexa is lost in translation. Amazon...
China Snaps up US Oil, Straining Capacity to Export It
The U.S. oil export infrastructure is straining to keep up as the country’s crude oil exports hit new highs and...
Brazil: Deal Reached to Suspend Crippling Trucker Strike
Brazil’s government said late Thursday that a deal had been reached with truckers to suspend a 4-day-old strike that caused...
Jury: Samsung Owes Apple $539M for Copying iPhone
A jury has decided Samsung must pay Apple $539 million in damages for illegally copying some of the iPhone’s features...
FBI Taps Private Industry to Bring Down Hacker Clearinghouse
When a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, convicted a Latvian software developer last week of running an underground clearinghouse for...
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