Oct 31 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- As federal agents prepare to scour roughly 650,000 emails discovered on a laptop for possible links to Hillary Clinton's private server, the case lays bare tensions within the FBI and the Justice Department over how to investigate the Democratic nominee.
- The roughly $30 billion deal between General Electric (NYSE:GE) Co GE.N and Baker Hughes Inc BHI.N , expected to be announced on Monday, would create an energy powerhouse, giving General Electric a cost-effective way to play any recovery in the industry.
- A disc inside the Boeing (NYSE:BA) 767's engine violently broke apart, touching off a wide-ranging probe into certain General Electric Co engines.
- Negotiators for the Vatican and Beijing reached a compromise on who selects Catholic bishops in China, said people familiar with the matter, potentially marking a major step toward ending six decades of estrangement.
- Australia and New Zealand Banking Group ANZ.AX is shifting its focus in Asia to its institutional banking operations with a deal to sell its retail and wealth businesses in the region to Singapore's DBS Group Holdings Ltd DBSM.SI .
- Pakistan's government vowed to prevent an opposition political protest planned for next week, amid tension between the administration of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the country's powerful military.
- Airstrikes carried out by a Saudi-led military coalition killed at least 60 people at a security complex in Yemen that housed prisoners and staff, the country's Houthi rebels said.