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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.

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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.

Gun store owners called it the "Trump slump."

President Trump appeared to welcome an escalating trade war with the European Union on Saturday, warning the U.S. would respond tit-for-tat by taxing imports from European automakers if the E.U. targeted U.S. products.