| | | | World | China said comments made by a senior White House official blaming President Xi Jinping for blocking progress on a deal to avert a trade war were “shocking” and “bogus” accusations. | | Swiss regulators are stepping up efforts to halt an exodus of cryptocurrency projects from the country, after two of only a handful of banks active in the nascent sector shut their doors on it in the last year. | | | "While trying to win the people's heart, Kim would want to show that he's making an all-out effort on the economy and he really means it, and defuse suspicions about denuclearisation," #NorthKorea https://reut.rs/2Nu3AzI 6:41 AM - 19 Jul, 2018 | | I have such brave colleagues: Wa Lone told the court that during the interrogation, an officer offered a“negotiation” over the journalists’ arrest if they agreed not to publish the massacre story – an offer he said he rejected. https://reut.rs/2zTvd32 10:13 AM - Jan 10, 2018 | | | | | | | | Business | One of General Electric’s largest and most valuable customers, Saudi Arabia, is lining up competitors to bid against GE for lucrative power plant work, according to five people familiar with the situation. 5 min read | | The European Union’s trade commissioner said she hopes an EU mission to Washington will ease a transatlantic trade dispute but the bloc is preparing a list of U.S. imports to hit if the United States imposes tariffs on EU cars. 3 min read | | A European Union antitrust judgment against Google invites more competition from software developers including Microsoft, Amazon.com and Samsung Electronics, but still leaves them at an disadvantage, industry executives and analysts told Reuters. 3 Min Read | | | | | | | | Top Stories on Reuters TV | | | | | | | |