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It's the first time the WTO has cleared China to impose tariffs in a trade dispute

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is expected on November 3, 2019 to formally launch a long-anticipated stock offering of Saudi Aramco, a person close to the matter said on November 1, 2019

With winter approaching, Xu Yan brought some warm clothes and money for her husband to a detention centre in eastern China, though she's not even sure the arrested human rights lawyer is still being held there.Xu, 37, has travelled some 20 times from Beijing to Xuzhou in Jiangsu province in a vain struggle to get any information about Yu Wensheng after he was taken into custody last year.Her plight highlights the frustrations, fears and obstacles faced by the families of lawyers and activists who fall foul of the communist authorities and vanish into China's selectively opaque legal system.

Economic adviser Larry Kudlow says nothing formal is in place but President Trump would like to trot out a tax cut proposal during the 2020 presidential campaign despite a budget deficit approaching $1 trillion.

National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow speaks to reporters at the White House on November 1, 2019

The WTO rejected the U.S. method of determining whether Chinese goods are being illegally dumped on U.S. markets.

GM workers react on October 25, 2019 after learning that UAW workers had voted to ratify a bargain with the automaker

FitBit co-founder and CEO James Park, seen at a presentation at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, said Google is an ideal partner to advance the mission of the wearable tech maker

The Department of Labor said U.S. employers added 128,000 jobs last month.

Hong Kong's protesters are demanding the right to elect their leaders

The internet is the country's main forum for political debate and opposing voices as well as coordinating opposition demonstrations

A Mavic Pro 2 drone made by the Chinese company DJI

Shen Chunyao, director of the Hong Kong, Macau and Basic Law Commission, said China would 'never tolerate any act' that aims to split the country

Low Taek Jho, the jet-setting former unofficial adviser to 1Malaysia Development Berhad allegedly played a key role in plundering the sovereign wealth fund

Chile's government met with opposition leaders Thursday in a fresh bid to end deadly protests that forced the country to abandon hosting two major economic and climate summits, but leftist parties poured scorn on the efforts.The unrest started with protests against a rise in transport tickets and other austerity measures and descended into vandalism, looting, and clashes between demonstrators and police.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has said he is optimistic that the U.S and China would settle their trade war amicably.

Hong Kong's economy is suffering

Global smartphone sales were up modestly in the third quarter, showing their first gains in two years, a new survey showed, with Samsung extending its leading position

Hong Kong democracy activists donned Halloween masks lampooning the city's pro-Beijing leaders on Thursday, defying an emergency law that bans face coverings and sparking renewed clashes with police.Tear gas was fired in multiple locations Thursday evening, including near a popular nightclub district where thousands of protesters had gatecrashed Halloween celebrations.Online forums used to organise the largely leaderless movement encouraged supporters to use a night when revellers traditionally embrace costumes to mock a recently enacted ban on face masks at protests.

President Donald Trump says the US and China are working on a new location for the signing of a trade deal with China's leader Xi Jinping

US energy prices fell for the second month in a row in September