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A man drives a classic America car past a row of multi-colored facades on Infantas Street in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, June 2, 2018. Cuban legislators took the first step Saturday toward drafting a new constitution.

MODERNIZING

Cuba will recognize private property in its new constitution

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella looks on during a video as he delivers the keynote address at Build, the company's annual conference for software developers Monday, May 7, 2018, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

AZURE THING

How Satya Nadella and Microsoft won back Wall Street

Xiaomi founder, Chairman and CEO Lei Jun (C) attends the listing of the company with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Chairman Laura Cha (2nd L), Financial Secretary Paul Chan (2nd R) and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Chief Executive Charles Li (R) at the Hong Kong Exchanges in Hong Kong, China July 9, 2018.

UPS AND DOWNS

China’s regulators are taking Xiaomi’s stock price on a ride

The label of Finnish beer brewery Rock Paper Scissors shows a cartoon of Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S President Donald Trump, in a grocery store in Helsinki, Wednesday, July 11, 2018. In a combative start to his NATO visit, Trump asserted Wednesday that a pipeline project has made Germany "totally controlled" by and "captive to Russia" and blasted allies' defense spending, opening what was expected to be a fraught summit with a list of grievances involving American allies. (Aku H'yrynen/Lehtikuva via AP)

HOT PEACE

Why can’t the US make any progress in relations with Russia?

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