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Jason Lee | Reuters China’s President Xi Jinping claps after his speech as he and other new Politburo Standing Committee members meet with the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China October 25, 2017. Trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies are hot ahead of …

Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bob Iger, chief executive officer of Walt Disney Co. The media landscape has changed considerably in recent years as audiences shift to content on Facebook, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Netflix. Competing effectively requires scale, something Disney has, but 21st Century Fox does not. …

Stephen M. Dowell | Orlando Sentinel | TNS via Getty Images John Cena proposes to Nikki Bella during WrestleMania 33 on Sunday, April 2, 2017 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Fla. World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is conducting virtual reality trials in order to try and bring every fan ringside …

Seb Daly | Web Summit | Sportsfile | Getty Images Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, European Commission, on centre stage during the Web Summit 2017 The record $2.7 billion antitrust fine that the European Union slapped on Google in June will help drive innovation, the European commissioner for competition …

Elijah Nouvelage | AFP | Getty Images Aparna Chennapragada, Senior Director of Product at Google, Inc., talks about the new Augmented Reality stickers feature of the Pixel 2 smartphone at a product launch event, October 4, 2017. Google expects that “hundreds of millions” of Android devices will be capable of …

Moses Robinson | Qatar Airways | Getty Images Akbar Al Baker, Chief Executive, Qatar Airways This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates. The CEO of Qatar Airways has said his airline is recovering quickly from the ongoing dispute with Saudi Arabia and other countries. Qatar is …

JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump talks to military personnel with South Korean President Moon Jae-In at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek on November 7, 2017 “There’s just a lot of anxiety growing in South Korea about where the alliance is headed,” said Jenny Town, the assistant director of the U.S.-Korea …

Oil prices surged to their highest levels since the summer of 2015 on Monday as a major political shakeup in Saudi Arabia underpinned a rally fueled by geopolitical risk, analysts said. Crude futures hit the new highs overnight after the powerful Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman coordinated the arrest …

Carlos Garcia Rawlins | Reuters Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro talks to the media during a news conference at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela October 17, 2017. Venezuela’s next presidential election is scheduled for October 2018. Maduro — the current president and successor to dictator Hugo Chavez — is likely to …

Michael Nagle | Bloomberg via Getty Images Wilbur Ross, U.S. commerce secretary, speaks during an Economic Club of New York event in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Monday that already “thrilled” business executives should expect even more regulatory relief over the coming …