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Even as the two countries continue negotiations to end the trade war set off by President Donald Trump, China imported a lot more crude oil from Russia than it did from the United States. → Read More
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump called the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro “illegitimate” and officially recognized Juan Guaido as the country’s interim leader instead. → Read More
Carbon emissions from heavy industry and transport, leading contributors to human-induced climate change, can be made net-zero by 2060, or even earlier, a new report says. → Read More
In an announcement Tuesday, American Airlines said high fuel costs and competition were responsible for the reduction of its services to China and Japan. → Read More
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen’s commercial space venture Stratolaunch Systems announced Monday its launch vehicles — three rockets and the largest airplane ever by wingspan — and proposed first flight for 2020. → Read More
The all-cash deal to buy all outstanding shares of SodaStream would be funded by PepsiCo’s existing funds. The offer price reflects almost 11 percent premium to SodaStream’s Friday closing share price on Nasdaq. → Read More
The apps that Apple removed from its App Store in China were in violation of the country’s laws by providing platforms for gambling and selling fake lottery tickets, among others. → Read More
CEO and chairman of Tesla, Elon Musk, made a surprising proposal Tuesday on his Twitter account to take the electric car manufacturer private, at a valuation of roughly $71 billion. → Read More
Alex Jones and his Infowars talk show are well-known for their absurd claims involving conspiracy theories, and Spotify is under pressure from several users to discontinue the podcast. → Read More
Fast-food chain McDonald’s is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its well-known burger, Big Mac, with the launch of MacCoin, a limited edition “currency” that will be redeemable for a Big Mac. → Read More
BHP, the world’s largest mining company, is selling all of its onshore shale oil and gas assets in the United States in two deals, one worth $10.5 billion with BP and the other worth $300 million with Merit Energy. → Read More
The investment by pharmaceutical company Pfizer, widely known as the maker of Viagra, will also create over 450 jobs in Michigan, the company said in a statement Tuesday. → Read More
The world’s largest crude oil production company, Saudi Arabian state-owned Saudi Aramco, is looking to diversify its portfolio ahead of a planned public listing, in which it would sell 5 percent of the company. → Read More
The Chinese company makes smartphones but Xiaomi has also said its end-goal is to be an internet company, making money off content. Its estimated $6.1 billion stock market debut is set for July 9 in Hong Kong. → Read More
Ordinary matter, everything we can touch and see, accounts for only 5 percent of the entire mass-energy of the universe. Of that, we have only now been able to spot the final one-third. → Read More
Researchers from two U.S. universities determined if a country were to actually use nuclear weapons during wartime, it would suffer terribly if the number of warheads fired crossed 100. → Read More
While galaxies farther in space and further back in time have been found, this is the first time astronomers have observed — thanks to Hubble Space Telescope — a single star that is 9 billion light-years away. → Read More
Apple had sued Samsung in 2011 for copying the iPhone’s appearance, and the latest verdict by a jury Thursday directed the South Korean company to pay $539 million as settlement. → Read More
The latest prediction by a team of scientists from China paints a dire picture for Earth’s climate, a far cry from the Paris Agreement’s aim to limit temperature rise to under 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels. → Read More
The deadly virus is transmitted to humans primarily from animals — in this case, from fruit bats, who seem to be its natural hosts — and has no vaccination yet for either humans or animals. → Read More