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”

Turkish Foreign Minister Faces Tough Questions in Washington

Turkish Foreign Minister Faces Tough Questions in Washington

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is due to meet Wednesday in Washington with Secretary of State Antony Blinken — the...

Musk: Doubt About Spam Accounts Could Scuttle Twitter Deal

Musk: Doubt About Spam Accounts Could Scuttle Twitter Deal

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can’t move forward unless the company shows public proof that...

Ethiopia Expels The Economist Correspondent

Ethiopia Expels The Economist Correspondent

Ethiopia has expelled The Economist’s correspondent from the East African country, accusing him of taking a “misguided approach” to journalism,...

War Crimes Watch: Targeting Schools, Russia Bombs the Future

War Crimes Watch: Targeting Schools, Russia Bombs the Future

By JASON DEAREN, JULIET LINDERMAN and OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI  As she lay buried under the rubble, her legs broken and eyes...

Ukraine Works to Evacuate Last Mariupol Troops

Ukraine Works to Evacuate Last Mariupol Troops

Ukraine’s military worked Tuesday to evacuate its remaining fighters from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol where three months of...

Latest Developments in Ukraine: May 17

Latest Developments in Ukraine: May 17

For full coverage of the crisis in Ukraine, visit Flashpoint Ukraine. The latest developments in the conflict between Russia and...

EU Fails to Clinch Russian Oil Embargo  

EU Fails to Clinch Russian Oil Embargo  

The European Union again failed to agree to an oil embargo against Russia Monday as part of a sixth package...

Biden Praises Greece for Leadership After Russia Invasion

Biden Praises Greece for Leadership After Russia Invasion

President Joe Biden on Monday thanked Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for his country’s “moral leadership” in the aftermath of...

When Not Tending to War Wounded, Ukraine Rock Star Jams With Bono, Sheeran

When Not Tending to War Wounded, Ukraine Rock Star Jams With Bono, Sheeran

Taras Topolya is a Ukrainian rock singer. From the first day of the war in Ukraine, he has been working...

EU Cuts Eurozone Growth Forecast As Ukraine War Bites

EU Cuts Eurozone Growth Forecast As Ukraine War Bites

The European Commission on Monday sharply cut its eurozone growth forecast for 2022 to 2.7 percent, blaming skyrocketing energy prices...

Greek Leader Set for Talks With Biden Over Turkey, Energy 

Greek Leader Set for Talks With Biden Over Turkey, Energy 

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis flies to Washington for talks with President Joe Biden on Monday, their first since the...

Convicted Killer Turned Tech Whiz Confronts His Sordid Past

Convicted Killer Turned Tech Whiz Confronts His Sordid Past

When he was 20 years old, Harel Hershtik planned and executed a murder, a crime that a quarter of a...

Ukraine Says Troops Make Gains in Kharkiv

Ukraine Says Troops Make Gains in Kharkiv

Ukraine said Monday its forces had pushed back Russian troops in the Kharkiv region in a counter-offensive that allowed the...

US, EU to Boost Coordination on Semiconductor Supply, Russia

US, EU to Boost Coordination on Semiconductor Supply, Russia

The United States and the European Union plan to announce on Monday a joint effort aimed at identifying semiconductor supply...

Latest Developments in Ukraine: May 16

Latest Developments in Ukraine: May 16

For full coverage of the crisis in Ukraine, visit Flashpoint Ukraine. The latest developments in the conflict between Russia and...

Pope Declares 10 New Saints, Including Dutch Priest Killed By Nazis 
 

Pope Declares 10 New Saints, Including Dutch Priest Killed By Nazis   

Pope Francis on Sunday declared 10 people saints of the Roman Catholic Church, including an anti-Nazi Dutch priest murdered in...

IBM: 6 Black Colleges Getting Cybersecurity Centers

IBM: 6 Black Colleges Getting Cybersecurity Centers

Six historically Black universities in five Southern states will be getting the first IBM cybersecurity centers aimed at training underrepresented...

Eurovision Win in Hand, Ukraine Band Releases New War Video

Eurovision Win in Hand, Ukraine Band Releases New War Video

Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra, fresh off its Eurovision victory, released a new music video Sunday of its winning hit “Stefania”...

Radio Station Elevates Voices of Hungary’s Roma Minority

Radio Station Elevates Voices of Hungary’s Roma Minority

Intellectuals, broadcasters and cultural figures from Hungary’s Roma community are using the airwaves to reframe narratives and elevate the voices...

Neutral Switzerland Leans closer to NATO in Response to Russia 

Neutral Switzerland Leans closer to NATO in Response to Russia 

Switzerland’s fabled neutral status is about to face its biggest test in decades, with the defense ministry tilting closer to...

NATO Talks for Finland, Sweden on ‘Good Track’

NATO Talks for Finland, Sweden on ‘Good Track’

Talks to overcome Turkey’s misgivings about the expected NATO membership bids of Finland and Sweden were on a “good track,”...

Russia Artist is 76-year-old Voice of Protest on Ukraine

Russia Artist is 76-year-old Voice of Protest on Ukraine

Yelena Osipova barely slept ahead of Russia’s pomp-filled Victory Day celebrations on May 9. The 76-year-old artist was up late,...