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  HELSINKI / AP Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011, is returning to court this week as the government appeals a ruling that his isolation in prison breaches the European Convention on Human Rights. The 37-year-old right-wing extremist, who admitted to the killings that Prime Minister Erna Solberg has ...

  When Barack Obama moves two miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 2446 Belmont Road in Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood, he will live half a mile from 2340 S Street, where Woodrow Wilson spent his three post-presidential years. Wilson’s embittering foreign policy failure was the Senate’s rejection of the US participation in the embodiment of Wilsonian aspirations, the League of Nations. ...

  Global Logistic Properties Ltd., (GLP) a Singapore-traded landlord with a $40 billion warehouse portfolio in China, Japan, Brazil and the US, was crying out for some honest-to-goodness investor activism. A little belatedly, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund is prodding it to release what could be billions of dollars of trapped shareholder value. It’s still not too late for GLP to ...

  Recently, the US intelligence community struck back. Not at Russia, which it accuses of hacking the Democratic National Committee to destabilize American democracy and swing the 2016 presidential race, but at President-elect Donald Trump, whose recent tweets have called into question not just the agencies’ findings but their competence. It’s entirely appropriate, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told ...

  Ev Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, spent five years building Medium into one of the slickest publishing platforms on the web. Yet he found himself in traditional-publishing purgatory, cutting 50 employees and searching for a new business model. There could be no better proof that delivery methods matter little and content is king. In the post outlining the changes, ...

  As if it wasn’t bad enough getting into a fight with the president-elect over the cost of Air Force One, Boeing Co. is facing problems from the other side of the Pacific. Beijing is planning to step up scrutiny of US companies in the event that Donald Trump flips from trash-talking the cost of presidential aircraft to taking punitive ...

  Foreign takeovers of British companies have been surprisingly few given the fall in sterling since Britons voted to leave the European Union in June. The bids for chip-designer Arm Holdings Plc, broadcaster Sky Plc and pubs group Punch Taverns are the only post-referendum deals for UK firms worth more than $1 billion, according to Bloomberg data. Activity has been ...

  Noah Smith The same problems come up again and again in discussions of what Japan needs to do to revive its economy. The first is low white-collar productivity. The second is population aging. The third is gender equality. Now Japan’s government is poised to attack all three problems at once, undertaking an assault on one of the central features ...

  DOHA / Emirates Business Qatar Airways is sponsoring the first-class 7-star cinema experience at iconic Novo Cinemas across Qatar, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates, introducing customers within the region to a luxury entertainment experience. The seven-star service includes valet parking, luxury lounges and special gourmet food menu ordered from fully reclining leather seats. Each seat comes with an iPad, ...

  PARIS / Reuters Airbus said on Sunday Iran’s state airline IranAir had accepted its first new jet, marking a key step in opening up trade under a nuclear sanctions deal between Iran and major powers. The Airbus A321 jetliner has been painted in IranAir livery and is expected to be delivered later this week. “The technical acceptance has been ...