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U.S. efforts to counter China’s global economic push got a boost from European and Asian countries, which also want to capitalize on Washington’s fight with Beijing.

“My best ideas, realizations, crystallization of what we have to do come from watching not only people work with our own software … it comes from interacting with customers,” says the CEO of the internet domain registrar. Family, old friends and authors are also trusted advisers.

Women have little margin for error, while men’s flaws or bad ideas are minimized.

The European Union’s top court ordered Poland to suspend a purge of the country’s supreme court, escalating a battle over the rule of law that has split Europe between East and West.

Procter & Gamble reported stronger sales in the latest quarter, driven by gains in the beauty segment, as the consumer-products giant seeks to snap a stretch of lackluster growth.

As China’s economic growth weakens faster than expected and uncertainty from the trade fight with the U.S. casts a shadow over business, a surprising driver has been exports. But that may soon peter out.

Facebook has hired Britain’s former deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, as its top policy and communications executive, giving a Silicon Valley outsider the task of mending the social network’s image.

Anjem Choudary was released from a British jail after serving half his sentence for inciting support of Islamic State, the latest in a stream of people arrested on terrorism charges who have been discharged in the U.K. over the past year.

A caravan of 3,000 Honduran migrants that has drawn the ire of President Trump began to mass near Guatemala’s border with Mexico, setting up a showdown with Mexican authorities who have vowed to prevent the group from continuing their journey to the U.S.

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes declined in September, extending a weak stretch for the housing market in a period of otherwise strong economic growth.

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Honeywell International lowered its profit guidance to reflect the spinoffs in its home and transportation businesses, while also reporting positive quarterly results.

A private-equity firm is urging oil producer Resolute Energy to merge with a rival, the latest salvo in a growing campaign by some investors to force shale drillers to consolidate.

A federal court ordered a New York trading firm to pay $2.5 million in fines and restitution for orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least 80 customers who thought they were investing in bitcoin.

South Korea’s president is trying—and so far failing—to rally European support for loosening sanctions on North Korea, a move that also risks putting him further at odds with the Trump administration’s efforts to maintain pressure on Pyongyang.

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Google, Amazon and Microsoft are making lots of new devices, but what they’re really selling are touchpoints.

The Trump administration on Friday will propose guidelines that will help investors use a new tax incentive that encourages development in low-income areas.

Less than a day after the assassination of one of Afghanistan’s most powerful anti-Taliban leaders, the Kabul government postponed voting in Kandahar province for this weekend’s crucial parliamentary elections.

A Gabonese gambit is at the leading edge of a trend attracting a growing list of African economies: frontier-tourism products in places that visitors often more-closely associate with conflict or instability.

Lu Wei, the man who once led President Xi Jinping’s campaign to turn China into a cyberpower, pleaded guilty to corruption charges in a case that Beijing has trumpeted as a demonstration of its commitment to a wide-ranging antigraft crackdown.

Amazon executives have made a fresh round of visits to several of the 20 finalists for its $5 billion second-headquarters project, fueling added anticipation as it nears a decision in a process that has stretched over more than a year.

PayPal reported strong quarterly results, is at a more reasonable valuation and has shown that it can earn money from Venmo.

The electric car company has suffered amid U.S.-China trade tensions. Its plan to go local in China faces some stiff obstacles.

U.S. sanctions intended to squeeze an Iranian paramilitary force may have unintended consequences for humanitarian efforts because of its targeting of an Iranian bank.