American and Chinese trade negotiators began more talks Wednesday aimed at ending a tariff war after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said U.S. officials might be moving toward a decision on whether to make a deal with Beijing.

 

The chairman of Apple supplier Foxconn will travel to the United States on Tuesday for a meeting in the White House that is believed to be related to an investment in Wisconsin, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

 

Surrounded by mottled brown-and-white cows basking in the Normandy spring sunshine, Patrick Mercier admits his prized raw-milk camembert doesn't come cheap, but suggests not everyone should have to make the cheese this way.

 

The Chinese tech giant has been fighting off US espionage allegations, as Washington is trying to dissuade its allies across the world against using Huawei in developing the next-generation 5G network. The reputation of the Chinese firm has been challenged yet again after revelations by a European telecommunications giant.

 

Scandinavian airline SAS canceled more than 500 flights scheduled for Wednesday, which will ground some 47,000 passengers, as a strike by pilots entered a fifth day with no sign of talks between management and unions.

 

General Electric Co reported a more than three-fold rise in quarterly profit on Tuesday, helped by higher sales in its aviation, oil and gas, and healthcare units.

 

Shares in Denmark's Danske Bank, caught up in a gigantic money laundering scandal, dived on Tuesday after it reported a sharp fall in first-quarter net profits and revised annual targets downwards.

 

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed Tuesday to continue oil exports despite U.S. sanctions. Last week, Washington announced that it would end waivers for sanctions on countries importing oil from Iran. "We were subjected to cruel and illegal sanctions by the U.S., which especially affect workers, the middle and low-income groups," Rouhani said in a speech at a ceremony held on the occasion of Workers Week in capital Tehran.

 

Germany's unemployment rate in April held steady at the lowest rate since reunification in 1990, official figures showed Tuesday, as the jobs boom in Europe's biggest economy held up despite signs of slowing growth.

 

Some 20 million barrels of Iranian oil sitting on China’s shores in the northeast port of Dalian for the past six months now appears stranded as the United States hardens its stance on importing crude from Tehran.

 

Tesla Inc plans to announce on Tuesday that it has started selling solar panels and related equipment for up to 38 percent below the national average price, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

 

An intense drought related to this year’s El Nino phenomenon has precipitously lowered the level of Panama’s Gatun Lake, forcing the country’s Canal Authority to impose draft limits this week on ships moving through the waterway’s recently expanded locks.

 

French growth held steady in the first three months of the year as household spending recovered after anti-government protests at the end of 2018, official data showed on Tuesday.

 

In serene turquoise waters off Egypt's Red Sea coast, scuba divers ease among delicate pink jellyfish and admire coral -- yet a rebounding tourism sector threatens the fragile marine ecosystem.

 

American college students are turning to a new strategy to avoid the debt trap that has captured millions, pledging a share of their future earnings to pay for their education rather than borrowing.

 

Technology firms took a hit in Asia on Tuesday as two of the biggest names in the sector posted disappointing earnings, helping to drag most markets in the region into negative territory.

 

The Russian automaker GAZ Group continues talks with the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury on lifting of sanctions that should come into force in July 2019, a company’s spokesperson told TASS on Monday.

 

Factory activity in China expanded for a second straight month in April but at a much slower pace than expected, an official survey showed on Tuesday, suggesting the economy is still struggling for traction despite a flurry of support measures.

 

A Swiss anti-corruption lobby group has filed a criminal complaint against Credit Suisse over alleged fraud in the arrangement of $2 billion of loans to Mozambique, the group said on Monday.

 

The CEO of Scandinavian airline SAS has told negotiators to thrash out what concessions the company can make to end a pilot strike that has disrupted travel plans for hundreds of thousands of passengers.