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Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Pics or it didn’t happen. The Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with a host of Silicon Valley executives this week, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz, and Virgin founder …

Matt Cardy | Getty Images Conservative MP Boris Johnson speaks as he visits Bristol on May 14, 2016 in Bristol, England. The Russian embassy in London has sent a request for a meeting of its envoy, Alexander Yakovenko, with British foreign minister Boris Johnson to discuss the investigation of an …

Thierry Monasse | Getty Images U Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Commissioner Jyrki Katainen. Trade tensions between both the U.S. and Europe have calmed down in the last few weeks, a top European official told CNBC Saturday at the European House Ambrosetti Forum. U.S. President Donald Trump threatened in March …

Eric Lafforgue | Art in All of Us | Corbis via Getty Images Ethiopian farmers threshing grain with bullocks on January 18, 2017, in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s population, the second largest in sub-Saharan Africa after Nigeria, has a median age of 18, according to Morley. “Clearly, far greater private-sector involvement …

Getty Images Larry Kudlow, Director of the National Economic Council, speaks to reporters outside the White House April 4, 2018 in Washington, DC. Tariff negotiations with China have not started, though the White House hopes they will bear some fruit and prevent a trade war, National Economic Council Director Larry …

Pool | Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a welcoming ceremony November 9, 2017 in Beijing, China. ‘What is the problem you are trying to fix?’ In the final three months of 2017, the U.S. current account deficit widened by more than analysts had …

Mark Wilson | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he departs from the White House on July 12, 2017 in Washington, DC. It’s unfortunate that President Donald Trump has chosen to add fuel to an already heated spat with China just as officials from both countries have signaled …

Jeon Heon-Kyun | Getty Images South Korean President Park Geun-Hye makes a speech during an address to the nation, at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on November 29, 2016. A South Korean court found former President Park Geun-hye guilty of bribery on Friday over a scandal that exposed webs …

Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping leave after an opera performance at the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, November 8, 2017. Financial markets have been unnerved for days by the trade fight and Trump’s management of it, with the president’s latest salvo sending U.S. …

Drew Angerer | Getty Images John Bolton, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, waves as he leaves Trump Tower, December 2, 2016. President Donald Trump’s choice to tap John Bolton as national security advisor is widely expected to produce more hawkish U.S. foreign policy on rogue states such …