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Australia and East Timor will sign a treaty that draws the first-ever maritime border between the neighbors, resolving years of bitter wrangling with a deal that carves up billions of dollars of oil and gas riches that lie beneath the Timor Sea.

___ GOP lawmakers, business groups pressure Trump on tariffs WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan is calling on President Donald Trump to take a 'more surgical approach' to trade and back off his threat to levy tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

U.S. stocks meandered but finished mostly higher Tuesday as retailers and industrial companies rose, and a jump in metals prices helped mining and materials companies.

How to win from Trump's tariff smack down.

The Latest on President Donald Trump's new tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum (all times local): 9:01 a.m.

Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao is acknowledging that President Donald Trump has asked Speaker Paul Ryan to block funding for a multi-billion dollar railway tunnel project that's a top priority of the Senate's top Democrat.

Target is reporting fourth-quarter earnings just shy of expectations, though revenue is better than expected.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken his campaign to one of Russia's leading industrial companies, vowing to bolster high-tech industries and improving living standards.

The Netherlands' main intelligence agency says it is seeing an increase in the volume and complexity of attempts at digital espionage, online political manipulation and moves toward sabotage of infrastructure in Europe.

China's government says it has asked for a temporary hold on a U.S. request for United Nations sanctions against ships accused of violating trade restrictions on North Korea while it studies what entities are involved.

The fight to keep tiny pollutants from reaching the dinner plate might start in the laundry room.

South Sudan's state-owned oil company has been "captured by predatory elites" and is being used to fund the country's civil war, including a government-aligned militia accused of human rights abuses, according to two investigative organizations.

The head of the Food and Drug Administration wants to more than double the number of packages his agency inspects to stem an influx of opioids coming from overseas.

Ohio's attorney general has sued the agribusiness company Monsanto alleging the company produced and sold chemical compounds known as PCBs for decades despite knowing of hazards the chemicals posed.

Trade wars generate no medals, monuments or military parades.

The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 9:35 a.m.

Yevgeny Solozhnin, a 61-year-old welder and Vladimir Putin supporter, is looking for a telephone number to call the Russian president and complain about the harsh wage cuts that halved his paycheck at the state tank and railroad car plant.

Chinese leaders have set this year's official economic growth target at "around 6.5 percent," which is down slightly from 2017 but would be among the world's strongest if achieved.