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The Kremlin's action comes as U.S. and U.K. authorities focus on the potential of a terrorist attack in the downing of Metrojet Flight 9268.

How New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is hoping to use a state securities law to prove the oil giant misled investors on climate change.

In an economy full of low-wage work, the relative lack of construction jobs is especially painful.

October’s better-than-expected gain of 271,000 jobs marks the best showing of 2015 and the lowest unemployment level since March 2008.

The cabin crew union announced earlier this week that its members would stage a walkout at Frankfurt and Düsseldorf airports.

The health of the U.S. jobs market is one of the key factors in the Fed's thinking over a December rate hike that has aided the dollar's strength.

China is not among the 12 Pacific-Rim countries which last month agreed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact.

The Japanese automaker plans to invest $1 billion in artificial intelligence and robotics, establishing centers of excellence in Silicon Valley and at MIT.

However, many observers say more details on who will succeed Warren Buffett, the 85-year old investment icon, matters more than quarterly results.

A report on the employment situation in the U.S., due Friday, is widely expected to further bolster arguments for a historic rate hike by the Federal Reserve in December.

Pfizer and Allergan said last week that they were in friendly merger talks to create what would be the world's biggest drug company.

The U.S. Justice Department is trying to stop a $3.3 billion deal that would merge the home appliance businesses of the two companies, saying that it may violate U.S. antitrust laws.

The blue chip financial firm will overhaul some of its policies as it, like others, faces high attrition rates among the junior cadre.

"We've entered the new phase, a new normal with slower growth, and that changes the business dynamic," Ford's point man in China said.

Strong players in the video-game market, including Take-Two, have the capital to expand and consolidate, the company's CEO said.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan edged down about 0.1 percent, though it remained on track for a 1 percent weekly rise.

"I accept full responsibility for my actions and am deeply sorry for what I've done," Rohit Bansal said at a plea hearing.

Imposing U.S. copyright laws on other countries through the Trans-Pacific Partnership would stifle Internet freedom and innovation, rights groups say.

The news ends uncertainty about who will run the second-largest U.S. airline by capacity.

Though complete safety is an elusive goal, more precautions are planned at some major airports after reports that a bomb brought down a Russian airliner over Egypt.

With funding from France's EDF, the 420-megawatt hydroelectric dam at Nachtigal Falls will solve 20 percent of the African nation's energy needs.

“I don’t think the public understands what they were signing up for, and the government didn’t either,” said a director for a political risk consultancy.

In the Central American country, U.S. trade boosters have failed to deliver on promises to lift labor standards.

"Oh, well, I shall just continue to sunbathe by [the] pool while young men bring me drinks,” said a British vacationer among 20,000 stranded in Egypt since the crash of a Russian airliner.

Top insurance carriers are hiring companies that can predict the fallout from a data breach, just like they do with natural disasters.

PETA launched a petition in response to a listing that incorrectly said a fashion designer sold shoes made of elephant skin.

Labor advocates and Democrats say they do not think the labor standards in the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal will do enough to protect workers in countries known for human rights violations.

Three months after the state mandated that digital currency firms guard against money laundering and fraud, at least 20 have left the state.

The newly released text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership shows the Obama administration will make it harder for companies to sue governments under trade deals.