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”

Activists Rally Behind French-Vietnamese Woman’s Agent Orange Lawsuit

Activists Rally Behind French-Vietnamese Woman’s Agent Orange Lawsuit

Activists gathered Saturday in Paris to support people exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, after a French court...

Russia Warns Navalny Supporters Not to Attend Sunday Protests 

Russia Warns Navalny Supporters Not to Attend Sunday Protests 

Russian police have issued a strong warning against participating in protests planned for Sunday to call for the release of...

Sources: Lithuanian President Nominates Belarus Opposition Leader for Nobel Prize

Sources: Lithuanian President Nominates Belarus Opposition Leader for Nobel Prize

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has nominated Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya for the Nobel Peace Prize, two sources with knowledge...

Downdetector: Social Media Platform Reddit Hit by Outages in US

Downdetector: Social Media Platform Reddit Hit by Outages in US

Social media company Reddit was experiencing problems on its website on Saturday, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.com.   Customers...

US Issues Mask-Wearing Mandate

US Issues Mask-Wearing Mandate

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a mask-wearing mandate late Friday to apply on all forms of...

France, Germany to Begin New COVID-Related Travel Regulations

France, Germany to Begin New COVID-Related Travel Regulations

As the number of COVID-19 infections continues to climb and highly contagious variants of the virus have emerged, some countries...

Putin Signs Extension of Last Russia-US Nuclear Arms Treaty

Putin Signs Extension of Last Russia-US Nuclear Arms Treaty

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a bill extending the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and...

Why is Kremlin Tagging Protesters ‘Political Pedophiles’?

Why is Kremlin Tagging Protesters ‘Political Pedophiles’?

Russia’s state-controlled media has been turning to a disinformation playbook it has used before in a bid to discredit protesters...

EU Drug Regulator Approves AstraZeneca Vaccine for Emergency Use

EU Drug Regulator Approves AstraZeneca Vaccine for Emergency Use

European Union regulators on Friday approved the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the third vaccine approved for use on the European continent....

German Health Minister Expects Approval of AstraZenaca COVID-19 Vaccine

German Health Minister Expects Approval of AstraZenaca COVID-19 Vaccine

Germany’s health minister said Friday he expects the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to be approved for emergency use later in the...

Facebook Oversight Board Announces First 5 Rulings

Facebook Oversight Board Announces First 5 Rulings

Facebook’s quasi-independent oversight board has ruled the social media company must restore four of five posts that it had taken...

Britain Upholding ‘Freedom and Autonomy’ With New HK Visas

Britain Upholding ‘Freedom and Autonomy’ With New HK Visas

Britain’s government vowed Friday to stand by the people of its former colony, Hong Kong, against a Chinese crackdown as...

Turkish Opposition Challenge Erdogan Over Uighur Silence

Turkish Opposition Challenge Erdogan Over Uighur Silence

The fate of tens of thousands of Uighur refugees in Turkey faced with possible deportation to China is threatening to...

Belarus Media Crackdown Intensifies, Rights Groups Say

Belarus Media Crackdown Intensifies, Rights Groups Say

The Belarusian government is escalating its clampdown on the media that began after Alexander Lukashenko won a disputed presidential election...

Greek Students, Teachers Defy Weeklong Ban on Protests

Greek Students, Teachers Defy Weeklong Ban on Protests

Thousands of students and teachers held peaceful demonstrations in Greece’s two biggest cities Thursday against proposed education reforms, defying a...

Poles Take to Streets in Protest as Near-total Abortion Ban Takes Effect

Poles Take to Streets in Protest as Near-total Abortion Ban Takes Effect

Protesters took to the streets of the Polish capital, Warsaw, late Wednesday and more demonstrations were scheduled for Thursday after...

WHO Europe Chief Says Region in Midst of COVID-19 ‘Pandemic Paradox’

WHO Europe Chief Says Region in Midst of COVID-19 ‘Pandemic Paradox’

The World Health Organization’s Europe director Hans Kluge said Thursday the continent is in the midst of what he calls...

‘Little to No Progress’ in Global Corruption Fight, Watchdog Says

‘Little to No Progress’ in Global Corruption Fight, Watchdog Says

Most countries have made “little to no progress” in tackling corruption in nearly a decade, a new report by Transparency...

Britain Refuses EU’s Demand for Vaccine Doses

Britain Refuses EU’s Demand for Vaccine Doses

A vaccine war has erupted between Britain and the European Union with Brussels demanding that tens of millions of COVID-19...

Blinken Cites Yemen, Russia, China Among Top State Dept. Priorities

Blinken Cites Yemen, Russia, China Among Top State Dept. Priorities

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the humanitarian crisis in Yemen — as well as U.S. relations with Russia and...

Britain Hits Highest COVID-19 Death Rate Per Capita in the World

Britain Hits Highest COVID-19 Death Rate Per Capita in the World

Looking through family photographs at his home in Leeds, England, Gordon Bonner, 86, said he was lost in a “hinterland...

New US Defense Secretary Says Germany ‘Highly Valued’ as Host for US Troops

New US Defense Secretary Says Germany ‘Highly Valued’ as Host for US Troops

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III said Wednesday he values Germany as a station for U.S. troops, leading to...