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Advertisement BEIJING — President Trump heaped praise on President Xi Jinping of China on Thursday, blaming past American administrations for China’s yawning trade surplus with the United States and saying he was confident that Mr. Xi could defuse the threat from North Korea. Mr. Trump’s warm words, on a state ...

SEOUL, South Korea — President Trump, whose long-distance threats and insults toward North Korea have stoked fears of a nuclear confrontation, brought a message of calm and reassurance to South Korea on Tuesday, moving to bolster an anxious ally even as he missed a chance to get an up-close look ...

Advertisement TOKYO — President Trump said on Monday that Japan could protect itself from a nuclear-armed North Korea by buying billions of dollars of American military equipment, drawing an explicit link between trade and security as he began a complex, politically charged tour of Asia. By turns generous and challenging, ...

TOKYO — Their stories are wrenching narratives of normalcy interrupted: the young couple taken while on a date at the beach, the single mother snatched on her way to pick up her toddlers after work, and the teenager who never made it home from badminton practice. Four decades ago, according ...

UNITED NATIONS — President Trump brought the same confrontational style of leadership he has used at home to the world’s most prominent stage on Tuesday as he vowed to “totally destroy North Korea” if it threatened the United States and denounced the nuclear agreement with Iran as “an embarrassment” that ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump put forward on Monday a long-awaited strategy for resolving the nearly 16-year-old conflict in Afghanistan, but he declined to specify either the number of troops that would be committed, or the conditions by which he would judge the success of their mission there. In a nationally ...

At 5:55 p.m. on Thursday, James Murdoch sent an email to a list of blind-copied recipients offering a striking repudiation of President Trump and a pledge to donate $ 1 million to the Anti-Defamation League. He addressed the note to “friends,” stating in the first line that he was writing ...

Late Sunday evening, Kenneth C. Frazier, the chief executive of Merck — one of the biggest drugmakers in America — informed his board members that he was about to do something that would have major fallout for him personally and for the company he leads: He was about to take ...

LONDON — It is the closest thing to a certainty in the global economy. When trouble flares and anxiety mounts, people who manage money traditionally entrust it to a seemingly indomitable refuge, the American dollar. Yet on Wednesday, in the hours after President’s Trump’s threat to unleash “fire and fury” ...

When the Chicago Transit Authority chose a Chinese joint venture to build the city a new fleet of rail cars for $ 1.3 billion, the manufacturer’s vow to construct an assembly plant on the Southeast Side helped tilt the scale in its favor. “This is a classic win-win for Chicago,” ...