Новости за 18.11.2016

Volkswagen announced plans on Friday to cut up to 30,000 jobs over the next 5 years as part of a broad overhaul. The move comes as the company attempts to boost profits in the wake of a damaging emissions-cheating scandal.

Law Blog rounds up the morning's legal news.

Facebook’s growing clout has spawned a series of prominent controversies—and increased confidence in staring them down.

China used its third-annual World Internet Conference to push its vision of the internet as a place where tech companies are deputized as crime-fighters and where censors keep radical views in check.

President Barack Obama and the leaders of Germany, France, the U.K., Italy and Spain met Friday to discuss key security and foreign-policy issues, marking the last time the European leaders would convene with Mr. Obama as president.

Chipotle Mexican Grill and William Ackman are nearing a settlement that would give the activist investor a say in the boardroom at the beleaguered burrito chain.

Abu Sayyaf, once written off as one of the global jihadist movement’s also-rans, is gaining strength by chasing down high-value victims at sea and ransoming them off for millions of dollars.

South Korea denied a request by Alphabet Inc.’s Google to export digital-map data from the country, effectively blocking the U.S. technology giant from expanding its limited local-map services there.

Fashion designer turned film director Tom Ford returns with “Nocturnal Animals,” his second film about human emotions, which stars Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal and won the Grand Jury prize at the Venice Film Festival. Mark Kelly reports. Images: Everett Collection Composite: Mark Kelly

The head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said that some Turkish officers serving in NATO posts have asked for asylum in allied countries.

Abercrombie & Fitch posted its third straight quarter of declining same-store sales, as the once-popular retailer’s rebranding efforts are showing little signs of winning back shoppers.

Hillary Clinton leads in the popular vote by as much as 1.3 million votes, in one tally. Here's a look at how she managed to beat Donald Trump by that much while still losing the Electoral College.

Political risk and capital raising mean a crucial two weeks for Italy.

China invited global tech executives for a conference this week where it pitched its version of the web. Photo: CCTV

HERE’S A LOOK AT THE DAY AHEAD OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: President Barack Obama attends a meeting with European leaders in Berlin, and then travels to Peru for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings. Secretary of State John Kerry also attends the APEC meetings. The White House hosts a summit on “Clean Energy Savings for All Americans,” beginning […]

Boeing moved closer to extending the life of its combat-jet production lines with State Department approval of sales to Kuwait and Qatar worth a combined $31.2 billion; the deals now go to Congress for final approval.

Hopes are rising that profit at Europe’s biggest companies might actually grow next year, after four years of declines, as commodity prices rebound, emerging markets improve and years of aggressive cost-cutting start to bear fruit.

Volkswagen on Friday ​presented a ​bundle of measures aimed at reviving its sputtering VW brand, more than a year after the company was rocked by a costly emissions scandal. Here are five areas where the automaker sees room for improvement.

As Donald Trump considers candidates for his cabinet, filling the post of secretary of state has been the subject of heated speculation. WSJ's Gerald F. Seib discusses the list and what the choice could means for the incoming president. Photo: AP

China has passed a new law that includes measures it hopes will strengthen the country’s film industry, as well as provisions that some say may make it harder for filmmakers to practice their art. Photo: Reuters

Three astronauts from the U.S., Russia and France blasted off aboard a Soyuz rocket heading for the International Space Station on Friday. Photo: Associated Press

Hillary Clinton may have lost the American election this month. But as Chinese voters went to the polls this week she popped up as a write-in candidate on paper ballots. So did Donald Trump, former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin and the Japanese porn star known as Sola Aoi.

As authorities struggle to replace the more than 20 billion notes that are being yanked out of the economy to punish cash-hoarding tax evaders, the sudden scarcity of cash is being felt most acutely far from India’s megacities. One consequence: Rice has become a common medium of exchange.

The Trump trade of strong dollar and higher bond yields should bring immediate pain to Chinese airlines. Yet share prices aren’t showing it.

Greece’s finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos believes Greece has a good chance of escaping its seemingly endless debt crisis by 2018 – provided it gets a helping hand in coming months from Germany over debt relief, the International Monetary Fund over austerity, and the European Central Bank on bond-buying. If the eurozone continues to delay the […]