International Business
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Inflation in U.K. Slows to 3.2%, Lowest in More Than 2 Years
Consumer prices in Britain rose at the slowest rate in two and a half years, the country’s Office for National…
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The Global Turn Away From Free-Market Policies Worries Economists
Meeting outside Paris last week, top officials from France, Germany and Italy pledged to pursue a coordinated economic policy to…
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Transportation Dept. and State Attorneys General Will Look Into Airline Complaints
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday announced a new partnership with more than a dozen state attorneys general to investigate…
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Smartmatic and OAN Settle Defamation Suit
The voting technology company Smartmatic reached a settlement on Tuesday in its defamation lawsuit against One America News Network, a…
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Powell Suggests Interest Rates Could Stay High for a Longer Period
The Federal Reserve is likely to wait longer than initially expected to cut interest rates given stubborn inflation readings in…
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Participant, Maker of Films With Social Conscience, Calls It Quits
For 20 years, Participant Media has been Hollywood’s pre-eminent maker of activist entertainment, backing socially conscious films like “An Inconvenient…
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NPR Suspends Editor Whose Essay Criticized the Broadcaster
NPR has suspended Uri Berliner, the senior business editor who broke ranks and published an essay arguing that the nonprofit…
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Inside Washington’s Role in Microsoft’s Big AI Deal With G42
An A.I. deal as a diplomatic weapon A relatively small deal — by Microsoft’s standards, anyway — is leading to…
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Lawmakers Question Bank of America About Leon Black’s Payments to Epstein
A U.S. Senate committee investigating the tax avoidance work that Jeffrey Epstein, the registered sex offender, did for the private…
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Why Germany Can’t Break Up With China
When Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, took office in 2021, he pledged that his government would shift his country’s relationship with…
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