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Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump arrive for a joint news conference at the White House June 7, 2018. He said Tokyo was also in contact with Iran. The United States has told countries to cut all imports of Iranian oil …

Hannah McKay | Reuters Ambulance arrives at the Topos Congress hotel in the soccer World Cup host city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia June 26, 2018. Russian police received multiple bomb threats on Tuesday relating to venues in the World Cup host city of Rostov-on-Don, the press service of the Rostov region …

Alexander Zemlianichenko | Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as they attend the Navy Day parade in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 30, 2017. Picture taken July 30, 2017. During a state-of-the-nation address in March, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Avangard was capable of reaching targets …

VCG | VCG via Getty Images Alibaba CEO Jack Ma makes a speech at 2017 Global Netreprenuer Conference on July 11, 2017 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. In cloud computing, Alibaba is primarily known for its rapid growth in China, where the company has long been the leading player …

ULISES RUIZ | AFP | Getty Images Guadalajara, Mexico, June 10, 2018. According to official figures, more than 200,000 people have been murdered and over 30,000 have disappeared since the government launched a controversial military offensive against organized crime in late 2006. Violence hit a record peak in Mexico last …

China’s currency has slipped markedly in the last week, to the point where it’s trading at December lows against the dollar, and that’s prompting speculation that China would be willing to use a weakened currency to fight U.S. tariffs and trade threats. But analysts say while the currency has made …

Matthew Busch | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee uses a flash grinder to smooth out the frame of a sports utility vehicle at the General Motors assembly plant in Arlington, Texas. The proposed U.S. tariffs on car imports will have far reaching negative implications for the whole auto industry, …

Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group, said in a note there are three goals the administration wants to complete with these tariffs: to protect tech companies from Chinese theft, to lower trade barriers set by other countries relative to the U.S. and lower the trade deficit. “As …

Gregorio Marrero | LatinContent | Getty Images Nicolas Maduro, Vice President of Venezuela and Daniel Ortega -President of Nicaragua- on January 10, 2013 in Caracas, Venzuela. Ortega won power in 2007 and has slowly taken control of all aspects of government, including the judiciary. That is had led to accusations …

Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Journalist Katie Couric at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France, June 2018 Content is a hot topic in marketing right now, both in terms of brands creating their own short films, and scrutinizing the third-party produced content they are associated with. …