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”

Time with horses is helping some Ukrainian kids deal with war

Time with horses is helping some Ukrainian kids deal with war

Since May 2024, heavy fighting has been going on near the village of Hlyboke, some 30 kilometers from Kharkiv, and...

Iceland government collapses, new election set for November

Iceland government collapses, new election set for November

Reykjavik, Iceland — Iceland’s three-party coalition government collapsed Sunday over disagreements on policy issues, Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson said, with new...

Lithuania’s center-left opposition says it will try to form government

Lithuania’s center-left opposition says it will try to form government

VILNIUS/PANEVEZYS, Lithuania — Lithuania’s center-left opposition Social Democrats (SD) will attempt to form a majority coalition government together with two other...

Chinese carmaker GAC considers making EVs in Europe as tariffs loom

Chinese carmaker GAC considers making EVs in Europe as tariffs loom

Paris — Chinese state-owned carmaker GAC is exploring the manufacture of EVs in Europe to avoid EU tariffs, the general manager...

Macron calls on Iran’s president to back Mideast ‘de-escalation’

Macron calls on Iran’s president to back Mideast ‘de-escalation’

Paris — French President Emmanuel Macron called on Iran’s leader Masoud Pezeshkian to support a “general de-escalation” in the Gaza Strip...

Thousands march in Spain to demand affordable housing

Thousands march in Spain to demand affordable housing

Madrid — Thousands protested Sunday in Madrid to demand more affordable housing amid rising anger from Spaniards who feel they are...

Colleagues pay tribute to Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian custody

Colleagues pay tribute to Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian custody

Ukraine’s human rights envoy urges response to alleged killings of Ukrainian POWs in Kursk

Ukraine’s human rights envoy urges response to alleged killings of Ukrainian POWs in Kursk

Kyiv — Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman urged international organizations Sunday to respond to a claim that several Ukrainian prisoners of war...

Ukrainian move to ban Moscow-linked church stirs anger in Russia

Ukrainian move to ban Moscow-linked church stirs anger in Russia

moscow — Speaking behind the thick white walls of Moscow’s ancient Danilov Monastery, Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk is adamant: People must not...

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,...