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”

Reported Turkish Drone Attacks Over Syria Raise Kurdish Concerns

Reported Turkish Drone Attacks Over Syria Raise Kurdish Concerns

U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria say they are increasingly concerned about a wave of Turkish drone attacks against their commanders...

Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts Dies at Age 80

Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts Dies at Age 80

Charlie Watts, the self-effacing and unshakeable Rolling Stones drummer who helped anchor one of rock’s greatest rhythm sections and used...

Turkey Rebuffs Europe’s Call to Host Afghan Refugees

Turkey Rebuffs Europe’s Call to Host Afghan Refugees

The European Union and Britain are looking to Turkey to become a hub to process Afghan refugees seeking sanctuary in...

Turkish Women Rally for Afghan Women, Condemn the Taliban 

Turkish Women Rally for Afghan Women, Condemn the Taliban 

Turkish women gathered outside the Afghan consulate in Istanbul to show their solidarity with Afghan women and to condemn the Taliban’s...

Will Afghanistan Create Another Migrant Crisis for Europe?   

Will Afghanistan Create Another Migrant Crisis for Europe?   

Greece has completed the construction of a border fence along its frontier with Turkey, as European fears grow of an influx...

Will Afghanistan Create Another Migrant Crisis for Europe?

Will Afghanistan Create Another Migrant Crisis for Europe?

Six years ago, more than 1.2 million migrants from many parts of the world fled to Europe, traveling hundreds or...

Russia Casts a Pragmatic Eye on Afghanistan’s Taliban

Russia Casts a Pragmatic Eye on Afghanistan’s Taliban

In the aftermath of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, Russia is looking south with a wary eye to see how...

Safe in Spain, Afghan Women’s Basketball Star Hopes to Play Again

Safe in Spain, Afghan Women’s Basketball Star Hopes to Play Again

As the captain of Afghanistan’s wheelchair basketball team and a women’s rights activist, Nilofar Bayat fled when the Taliban took...

Ukraine Opens International Summit on Crimea

Ukraine Opens International Summit on Crimea

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy opened the Crimean Platform summit in Kyiv Monday to build pressure on Russia over its annexation...

NATO’s European Leaders Also Blamed for Kabul Debacle 

NATO’s European Leaders Also Blamed for Kabul Debacle 

U.S. officials are not alone in facing blame for miscalculating the speed of the Taliban offensive.  European leaders and their...

People Evacuated as New Wildfire Hits Greek Island

People Evacuated as New Wildfire Hits Greek Island

Scores of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft battled a forest fire that broke out early Monday on the southern part...

Josephine Baker to be First Black Woman in France’s Pantheon

Josephine Baker to be First Black Woman in France’s Pantheon

Josephine Baker, the famed French American dancer, singer and actress who fought in the French resistance during WWII and later...

For France’s Sahel Mission, Echoes of Afghanistan  

For France’s Sahel Mission, Echoes of Afghanistan  

 The chaotic aftermath of Washington’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is being followed with a mix of trepidation and glee thousands...

UK Military: 7 People Killed in Chaos at Kabul Airport 

UK Military: 7 People Killed in Chaos at Kabul Airport 

Seven people were killed near Kabul’s airport Saturday as thousands gathered in a desperate effort to leave the country as...

Greece: Forest Fire Destroys Jobs of Pine Resin Collectors

Greece: Forest Fire Destroys Jobs of Pine Resin Collectors

For generations, residents in the north of the Greek island of Evia have made their living from the dense pine...

Russian Police Detain Journalists Who Back Media Freedom

Russian Police Detain Journalists Who Back Media Freedom

Russian police on Saturday detained several journalists who protested authorities’ decision to label a top independent TV channel as a...

Afghan Refugees in Eastern Turkey Hope for Better Future

Afghan Refugees in Eastern Turkey Hope for Better Future

Thousands of Afghans, hoping for a better future, are trying to escape the country as the Taliban seize control. VOA’s...

Greece Builds 25-mile Fence to Fend Off Afghan Refugees

Greece Builds 25-mile Fence to Fend Off Afghan Refugees

Greece has erected a 25-mile fence and installed a new surveillance system on its border with Turkey as fears mount...

Why the EU Sides with Southeast Asia in the South China Sea Dispute

Why the EU Sides with Southeast Asia in the South China Sea Dispute

European Union members will step up their advocacy of open access to the disputed South China Sea, a key world...

Erdogan Reiterates Interest in Securing Kabul Airport, Faces Criticism

Erdogan Reiterates Interest in Securing Kabul Airport, Faces Criticism

Despite earlier reports that Turkey had dropped plans to secure Kabul’s international airport, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday...

Arson Attack Hits Home of Journalist in Netherlands

Arson Attack Hits Home of Journalist in Netherlands

Unidentified attackers on Thursday threw Molotov cocktails into the Netherlands home of journalist Willem Groeneveld.The motive for the attack, which...

Britain, US Sanction Russian Intelligence Agents Over Navalny Poisoning

Britain, US Sanction Russian Intelligence Agents Over Navalny Poisoning

Britain and the United States imposed sanctions Friday on men they said were Russian intelligence operatives responsible for the poisoning...