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Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images George Soros, billionaire and founder of Soros Fund Management, speaks during an interview in London in March. The Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros has offered a three-point plan in order to preserve the status of the European Union. Europe’s alliance has been under strain …

Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images A French fighter jet, the Dassault Rafale, performs an aerial display. The Dassault company will continue to play a strategic role for the French armed forces, the country’s defense minister Florence Parly said on Tuesday, following the death of billionaire industrialist Serge Dassault. …

Angel Navarrete | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, gestures as he speaks in the senate in Madrid, Spain, on Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will face a vote of confidence in his leadership on Friday as corruption convictions handed down to dozens …

Christian Hartmann | Reuters The Swiss Re building in Zurich is shown in this Feb. 19, 2009 photo. Insurance company Swiss Re and Softbank have agreed to end discussions about a potential minority investment by the Japanese technology conglomerate. Swiss Re didn’t give reasons for the move in a brief …

Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at a meeting at Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran on January 23, 2016. China will host Iranian President Hassan Rouhani next month at a regional summit in a Chinese coastal city, the country’s foreign ministry said …

Joe Raedle | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands at a news conference at Mar-a-Lago resort on April 18, 2018. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday he would seek to convince President Donald Trump of the crucial role his country’s …

Suhaimi Abdullah | Getty Images A Kim Jong Un impersonator, Howard X, poses with a durian at the Esplanade on May 27, 2018 in Singapore. The summit, which was originally scheduled to happen on June 12 in Singapore, remains an uncertainty. Less than a week ago, Trump had announced that …

Carlos Barria | Reuters President Donald Trump welcomes South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 22, 2018. North and South Korea are discussing a possible non-aggression pledge by the United States to the North and a start of peace treaty talks to address Pyongyang’s …

Photo by Mark Runnacles | Getty Images The Doha Skyline at the Sheraton Grand Hotel on November 17, 2016 in Doha, Qatar. Bahrain sees no resolution in sight to a diplomatic row between Qatar and its neighbors, which cut diplomatic and trade ties with the tiny Gulf Arab state nearly …

Department of Defense photo The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Higgins steams through the Arabian Gulf during a maritime exercise. Two U.S. Navy warships sailed near South China Sea islands claimed by China on Sunday, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in a move likely to anger Beijing as President …