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Search giant Google may soon face anti-trust suits both in the US and China, with Reuters reporting that the US Department of Justice is trying to persuade the attorneys general in states to sign up.

The chances that Australia will be able to impose its will on digital giants Google and Facebook, as far as getting them to pay for using news from local outlets goes, appear rather slim, with indications that the US Government may pressure the Coalition to back off.

Giant online retailer Amazon has destroyed the sector, the US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin claims, telling the news channel CNBC that the Justice Department was right to include the company in an anti-trust review.

An official in the Trump administration has given a strong hint that the strictures placed on the Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies by Washington are all part of a gambit to help the US strike a trade deal with China.

The US Justice Department is considering whether to investigate Google for alleged anti-trust violations, a report in The New York Times claims.

The United States Treasury has imposed sanctions on three Russian individuals and five Russian companies, claiming they have assisted the military and intelligence services in Moscow to conduct cyber attacks against Washington and its allies.

US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has acknowledged that the Justice Department needs to take a close look at technology companies like Google that may be monopolies.