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”

Online hate against South Asian Americans rises steadily, report says

Online hate against South Asian Americans rises steadily, report says

WASHINGTON — Online hate against Americans of South Asian ancestry has risen steadily in 2023 and 2024 with the rise of...

Lithuanians elect new parliament amid cost of living, security worries

Lithuanians elect new parliament amid cost of living, security worries

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuanians elect a new parliament Sunday in a vote dominated by concerns over the cost of living and...

Afghan man imprisoned in France, accused of planning ‘violent action’

Afghan man imprisoned in France, accused of planning ‘violent action’

paris — A 22-year-old Afghan was indicted and imprisoned in France on Saturday, accused of supporting the ideology of the Islamic...

North Kosovo ethnic tensions at risk for violence, NATO official says

North Kosovo ethnic tensions at risk for violence, NATO official says

PRISTINA, KOSOVO — Persistent ethnic tension in north Kosovo could trigger a repeat of violence seen in the area last year...

Iran sends satellites to Russia for rocket launch, Tasnim reports

Iran sends satellites to Russia for rocket launch, Tasnim reports

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iran has sent two locally made satellites to Russia to be put into orbit by a...

Explosion, fire at service station in Russia’s Chechnya kills 4

Explosion, fire at service station in Russia’s Chechnya kills 4

MOSCOW — An explosion at a gas station in Russia’s southern region of Chechnya killed at least four people, officials said...

Poland to suspend asylum rights amid pressure on Belarusian border

Poland to suspend asylum rights amid pressure on Belarusian border

WARSAW, POLAND — Poland’s leader said Saturday that he plans to temporarily suspend the right to asylum as part of a...

Ukraine, Russia each say they foiled dozens of drone attacks

Ukraine, Russia each say they foiled dozens of drone attacks

Kyiv, Ukraine — Russia said on Saturday it had downed 47 Ukrainian drones while Kyiv reported neutralized 24 drones fired by...

Nazi-looted Monet artwork returned to family generations later

Nazi-looted Monet artwork returned to family generations later

NEW ORLEANS — On the eve of World War II, Nazis in Austria seized a pastel by renowned impressionist artist Claude...

Alexey Navalny wrote he knew he would die in prison in new memoir

Alexey Navalny wrote he knew he would die in prison in new memoir

new york — Russian dissident Alexey Navalny, who was President Vladimir Putin’s top political opponent before his death in February, believed...

Meta removes fake accounts in Moldova ahead of presidential election

Meta removes fake accounts in Moldova ahead of presidential election

STOCKHOLM — Meta Platforms said on Friday that it had removed a network of group accounts targeting Russian speakers in Moldova...

Gunmen kill police officer, 2 others in Russia’s North Caucasus

Gunmen kill police officer, 2 others in Russia’s North Caucasus

UK government is urged to raise pro-democracy tycoon’s case with China 

UK government is urged to raise pro-democracy tycoon’s case with China 

london — The U.K. government was urged Friday to raise the case of jailed pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai with China,...

Russian state media uses AI-generated images of Florida’s Disney World flooded by Milton

Russian state media uses AI-generated images of Florida’s Disney World flooded by Milton

The photographs are AI-generated fakes. While Milton flooded and destroyed hundreds of buildings, taking lives and devastating Florida, Disney World...

US lawmakers seek answers from telecoms on Chinese hacking report

US lawmakers seek answers from telecoms on Chinese hacking report

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers asked AT&T, Verizon Communications, and Lumen Technologies on Friday to answer questions after...

FIFA urged to put more human rights scrutiny into 2034 World Cup deal with Saudi Arabia

FIFA urged to put more human rights scrutiny into 2034 World Cup deal with Saudi Arabia

zurich — Two months before FIFA is set to confirm Saudi Arabia as the 2034 World Cup host, the soccer body...

Smithsonian and NASA present exhibit that explores ever-changing Earth 

Smithsonian and NASA present exhibit that explores ever-changing Earth 

This month, [October 8] the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History opened “NASA’s Earth Information Center” an exhibition that gives...

Who are Japan’s Nobel Peace Prize winners Nihon Hidankyo? 

Who are Japan’s Nobel Peace Prize winners Nihon Hidankyo? 

STOCKHOLM — Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who are also known...

Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Odesa region kill 4, governor says

Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Odesa region kill 4, governor says

kyiv, Ukraine — A Russian missile slammed into a commercial building in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region overnight, killing four people including...

Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors wins Nobel Peace Prize

Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors wins Nobel Peace Prize

Russian propagandists push fake story that Zelenskyy bought Hitler’s car

Russian propagandists push fake story that Zelenskyy bought Hitler’s car

washington — The article in the Seattle Tribune had everything: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Adolf Hitler and a $15 million classic...

Russian opposition politician Kara-Murza: ‘Putin must lose in Ukraine’ 

Russian opposition politician Kara-Murza: ‘Putin must lose in Ukraine’ 

WASHINGTON — Russian opposition politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza was released from a Russian prison on August 1 as part of...