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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in Saudi Arabia for talks, amid heightened tensions in the region By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press January 12, 2020, 3:49 PM 4 min read RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Saudi Arabia for talks with King Salman on Sunday as part […]

The founder and former top employees of a pharmaceutical company are being sentenced in a bribery scheme that prosecutors say helped fuel the national opioid epidemic By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press January 12, 2020, 4:06 PM 4 min read BOSTON — The founder and former top employees of a pharmaceutical company are facing a reckoning

Privacy is getting more attention at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas this week, after years of being hidden and under the radar By RACHEL LERMAN and JOSEPH PISANI Associated Press January 10, 2020, 8:32 PM 5 min read LAS VEGAS — Once a hidden and under-the-radar topic, privacy got more attention at the

Saudi oil giant Aramco’s initial public offering raised $29.4 billion, more than previously announced after the company says it used a so-called “greenshoe option” to sell an additional 450 million shares to meet investor demand By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press January 12, 2020, 10:47 AM 2 min read DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabian

A judge has ruled that homeless women who are illegally occupying a house in the San Francisco Bay Area don’t have the right to stay and must leave within five days By JANIE HAR Associated Press January 10, 2020, 8:42 PM 3 min read SAN FRANCISCO — Homeless women who are illegally occupying a house

A lawyer for former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who fled to Lebanon while awaiting trial in Japan, says his client was questioned an average of seven hours a day without a lawyer present By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer January 12, 2020, 4:57 AM 2 min read TOKYO — A lawyer for former Nissan Chairman

A lawyer for former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who fled to Lebanon while awaiting trial in Japan, says his client was questioned an average of seven hours a day without a lawyer present By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer January 12, 2020, 4:58 AM 2 min read TOKYO — A lawyer for former Nissan Chairman

PARIS, Jan 11 (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Saturday offered a major concession to unions contesting his government’s overhaul of the pension system, in a move aimed at ending strikes which are now in their fifth week. Philippe said in a letter to unions and employers that he was prepared to withdraw

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks fell from their record heights on Friday after a report showed hiring was a touch weaker than expected last month. Employers added 145,000 jobs across the country in December, short of the 160,000 that economists forecast. But the growth was solid enough to bolster Wall Street’s view that the job

U January 10, 2020, 9:33 PM 2 min read U.S. stocks fell from their record heights on Friday after a report showed hiring was a touch weaker than expected last month. Employers added 145,000 jobs across the country in December, short of the 160,000 that economists forecast. But the growth was solid enough to bolster