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A $1.5 billion settlement was reached in a class-action lawsuit covering tens of thousands of farmers, grain-handling facilities and ethanol plants that sued Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta over its introduction of a genetically engineered corn seed.

Spain's Repsol has opened its first gas stations in Mexico and says it's aiming for up to 10 percent market share within five years.

A Swiss agribusiness giant has agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement in a lawsuit over genetically modified corn seed variety.

___ Bids to curb health care costs offer little more than talk WASHINGTON (AP) — What began as bipartisan attempt to curb soaring health care premiums in the nation's health insurance markets is faltering in Congress.

The Latest on a multi-million dollar petrochemical plant proposed for eastern Ohio's Belmont County (all times local): 4:50 p.m.

U.S. stocks are rising Monday morning with retailers and technology companies making some of the largest gains.

Gov. John Kasich said Monday that a major South Korean industrial plant builder has joined an effort to build a multibillion-dollar petrochemical plant in eastern Ohio to take advantage of the region's oil-and-gas boom.

Geneva regional prosecutors have made two arrests after opening a criminal investigation of a Swiss consulting firm that served as a conduit between Venezuela's state oil company and some of its biggest clients.

Donald Trump Jr. has a previously undisclosed business relationship with a longtime hunting buddy who helped raise millions of dollars for his father's 2016 presidential campaign and has had special access to top government officials since the election, records obtained by The Associated Press show.

Asian stocks rose Monday despite U.S.-Chinese trade tension following solid Wall Street gains on strong U.S. employment data.

Duke Energy says its top executive's compensation has more than doubled over the past two years.

The average price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline remained steady over the past two weeks, at $2.59.

German energy company E.ON SE says it has agreed to take over a big stake of utility company RWE's subsidiary innogy in exchange for a far-reaching range of assets from E.ON's renewable business.

Anti-pipeline activists are erecting a cedar protest structure within distance of Kinder Morgan's storage tank farm in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby.

The Latest on Canada pipeline protest (all times local): 10:50 a.m.

An email sent by Atmos Energy to state regulators reveals company workers were investigating gas leaks involving fires at two Dallas homes some 12 hours before an explosion at another home killed a 12-year-old girl.

India and France have pledged to work together to ensure freedom of navigation in the Indian Ocean and have signed an agreement to expedite construction of a big nuclear power plant in India by a French company.

Indigenous leaders and environmental activists are converging in the Vancouver area to protest a $5.7 billion ($7.4 billion Canadian) pipeline expansion project that pumps oil from Canada's tar sands to the Pacific Coast.

Global stock markets are rising Friday on the back of strong U.S. jobs figures, while investor concerns about rising inflation have eased.

The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by three this week to 984.