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Robert Gilhooly | Bloomberg | Getty Images Kajima Corp.’s head office is seen against blue skies in Tokyo on Monday Jan. 22, 2007. Shares of Kajima Corp. and Obayashi Corp. led declines among Japan’s largest builders after their offices were raided in a crackdown of possible illegal bidding in Japan’s …

Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump shares a toast during a state dinner hosted by South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in at the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea November 7, 2017. The trade ministry said in a statement that Monday’s report completes South Korea’s own process to begin renegotiations …

CME, the world’s largest futures exchange, launched its own bitcoin futures contract Sunday under the ticker “BTC.” The futures moved just slightly higher in early trading following the highly-anticipated launch, a stark contrast from the 19 percent surge in CBOE bitcoin futures during their first day of trading a week …

MENAHEM KAHANA | AFP | Getty Images Israeli employees of Teva, the world’s biggest manufacturer of generic drugs, hold placard during a protest in the centre of Jerusalem on December 17, 2017, against plans by the pharmaceutical giant to shed employees Israel’s national trade union is holding a nationwide strike …

Lisa Rapaport | Bloomberg | Getty Images Barry Sherman poses with a bottle of clopidogrel tablets, August 14, 2006 at company headquarters in Weston, Ontario, Canada. “I am beyond words right now,” Hoskins wrote in his tweet. “Incredible philanthropists, great leaders in health care. A very, very sad day.” Barry …

Dessy Sagita | AFP | Getty Images Residents gather outside their apartment blocks in Jakarta on early December 16, 2017, following after a strong earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale. A strong earthquake has shaken buildings in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and other cities on the country’s most …

Jaap Arriens | NurPhoto | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook. Facebook will now let you temporarily mute a friend’s posts from your News Feed with a new feature called Snooze. Facebook users could already unfollow someone, hiding their posts entirely without unfriending, but the Snooze feature only mutes …

Masi Losi | The Times | Gallo Images | Getty Images South African President Jacob Zuma, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and Zweli Mkhize during the African National Congress’ policy conference on July 5, 2017, in Johannesburg, South Africa. South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) is set to …

Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee uses a smartphone as he demonstrates how to purchase bitcoins from a bitcoin automated teller machine (ATM) at the Coin Trader bitcoin retail store in Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 30, 2017. Japanese men may be the driving force of bitcoin’s wild surge, …

Jung Yeon-Je | AFP | Getty Images People watch a television news screen showing pictures of US President Donald Trump (C) and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (R) at a railway station in Seoul on November 29, 2017. President Donald Trump is taking a “big step” towards nuclear war by …