Business

Economy and business news. Business is the practice of making one’s living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). It is also “any activity or enterprise entered into for profit”

Russia Hopes to Raise Fish, Seafood Exports to China After Japan Ban

Russia Hopes to Raise Fish, Seafood Exports to China After Japan Ban

Russia hopes to increase its marine product exports to China in the wake of China’s ban on Japanese seafood imports...

Meta Faces Backlash Over Canada News Block as Wildfires Rage

Meta Faces Backlash Over Canada News Block as Wildfires Rage

Meta is being accused of endangering lives by blocking news links in Canada at a crucial moment, when thousands have...

US Accuses Russia, China of Covering for North Korea at UN

US Accuses Russia, China of Covering for North Korea at UN

The United States on Friday accused China and Russia of blocking a unified U.N. Security Council response to North Korea’s...

Rescue Ship Saves 438 Migrants in Mediterranean: NGO

Rescue Ship Saves 438 Migrants in Mediterranean: NGO

The rescue ship Ocean Viking has saved 438 migrants in distress in the Mediterranean over the last two days, the...

Belarus Leader Warned Prigozhin to ‘Watch Out’

Belarus Leader Warned Prigozhin to ‘Watch Out’

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Friday that he had warned Russian mercenary chiefs Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin to “watch...

Monaco Ends Corruption Probe of Lebanon’s Mikati for Lack of Evidence

Monaco Ends Corruption Probe of Lebanon’s Mikati for Lack of Evidence

A three-year probe of Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister and his family over corruption allegations has been closed by Monaco’s judicial...

Q&A: How Do Europe’s Sweeping Rules for Tech Giants Work?

Q&A: How Do Europe’s Sweeping Rules for Tech Giants Work?

Google, Facebook, TikTok and other Big Tech companies operating in Europe must comply with one of the most far-reaching efforts...

Electric Vehicle ‘Fast Chargers’ Seen as Game Changer

Electric Vehicle ‘Fast Chargers’ Seen as Game Changer

With White House funding to help get more electric cars on the road, some states are creating local rules to...

 Ukrainian Soldier Spent Weeks in Wagner Group’s Captivity, Lost Both Arms

 Ukrainian Soldier Spent Weeks in Wagner Group’s Captivity, Lost Both Arms

Ukrainian soldier Ilya Mikhalchuk was wounded near Bakhmut and captured by Wagner Group mercenaries in February. He had both arms...

Nerve Agents, Poison and Window Falls. Over the Years, Kremlin Foes Have Been Attacked or Killed

Nerve Agents, Poison and Window Falls. Over the Years, Kremlin Foes Have Been Attacked or Killed

The attacks range from the exotic — poisoned by drinking polonium-laced tea or touching a deadly nerve agent — to...

Russia Claims to Have Shot Down 42 Ukrainian Drones

Russia Claims to Have Shot Down 42 Ukrainian Drones

Russia said early Friday that it has downed dozens of drones launched from Ukraine. Russia’s Defense Ministry said that 42...

Spain Football Chief Will Resign for Kissing a Player, Reports Say

Spain Football Chief Will Resign for Kissing a Player, Reports Say

The president of the Spanish football federation faces an emergency meeting of its general assembly on Friday amid media reports...

Norway Donates F-16 Fighter Jets to Ukraine

Norway Donates F-16 Fighter Jets to Ukraine

Norway is donating F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said on a visit to Kyiv...

Pentagon to Train Ukrainian Pilots on F-16s in US 

Pentagon to Train Ukrainian Pilots on F-16s in US 

The Pentagon says the military will start training Ukrainian pilots to fly U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets inside the United States...

What Does Death of Wagner Group Chief Prigozhin Mean for Russia?

What Does Death of Wagner Group Chief Prigozhin Mean for Russia?

On Thursday, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency confirmed the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of the Russian mercenary...

US Sanctions Russians Involved in Abduction, Deportation of Ukrainian Children

US Sanctions Russians Involved in Abduction, Deportation of Ukrainian Children

The United States announced new sanctions Thursday against several Russian entities and individuals for their roles in the abduction and...

Death Toll Rises to Five in Poland Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak

Death Toll Rises to Five in Poland Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak

The death toll from an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Rzeszow, southeast Poland, has risen to five, local authorities said...

Istanbul Battles Drought as Reservoirs Dry Up

Istanbul Battles Drought as Reservoirs Dry Up

Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, faces one of its worst droughts and now record-high temperatures, blamed on climate change. With many...

US Sues SpaceX for Discriminating Against Refugees, Asylum-Seekers

US Sues SpaceX for Discriminating Against Refugees, Asylum-Seekers

The U.S. Justice Department is suing Elon Musk’s SpaceX for refusing to hire refugees and asylum-seekers at the rocket company....

VOA on the Scene: Ukraine Counteroffensive Captures ‘Only Villages in Name’

VOA on the Scene: Ukraine Counteroffensive Captures ‘Only Villages in Name’

Slower than expected but still moving forward, frontline soldiers say the Russian defenses are fierce in southern Ukraine as they...

Jailed American Journalist’s Arrest Extended by Moscow Court

Jailed American Journalist’s Arrest Extended by Moscow Court

A Moscow court on Thursday extended by three months the pre-trial detention of jailed U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich. He will...

Russian Missile Attack Injures 7 in Dnipro

Russian Missile Attack Injures 7 in Dnipro

A Russian missile attack wounded at least seven people early Thursday in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Serhiy Lysak,...