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”

EU Official Warns of Risks of Disjointed COVID Vaccine Records

EU Official Warns of Risks of Disjointed COVID Vaccine Records

European Union countries introducing their own COVID vaccination certificates would have to grapple with a myriad of disjointed systems if...

New Report Shows Curbs to Media Freedom in Europe

New Report Shows Curbs to Media Freedom in Europe

Leading media organizations and watchdog groups have issued a new report concerning threats to press freedom across Europe. It documents...

Seven Italian Red Brigades Members Arrested in France

Seven Italian Red Brigades Members Arrested in France

Seven Italian former members of the Red Brigades, a left-wing domestic terrorism group active in the 1970s and 1980s, were...

Heirs of Late Samsung Electronics Chairman to Pay Massive Inheritance Tax

Heirs of Late Samsung Electronics Chairman to Pay Massive Inheritance Tax

The family of the late Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, says it will pay $10.8 billion...

EU Ratifies Trade Deal with Britain

EU Ratifies Trade Deal with Britain

The European Parliament has ratified a post-Brexit trade deal with Britain. Results announced Wednesday showed EU lawmakers supporting the pact with...

UK Government Green Lights ‘Self-driving’ Cars on Motorways

UK Government Green Lights ‘Self-driving’ Cars on Motorways

The UK government on Wednesday became the first country to announce it will regulate the use of self-driving vehicles at...

Thousands Rally Against Slovenia’s Right-Wing Government

Thousands Rally Against Slovenia’s Right-Wing Government

Thousands rallied in Slovenia on Tuesday against the government of right-wing Prime Minister Janez Jansa, whom opponents accuse of curbing...

Iran Nuclear Pact Talks Resume

Iran Nuclear Pact Talks Resume

World powers resumed talks Tuesday in Vienna about revitalizing the 2015 international pact to restrain Iran’s nuclear development program and...

Biden’s First 100 Days: Transatlantic Alliances Renewed, as Russia Tests New President

Biden’s First 100 Days: Transatlantic Alliances Renewed, as Russia Tests New President

With this week marking 100 days of Joe Biden’s U.S. presidency, European allies are noting the change in the key relationship with Washington.  Henry Ridgwell...

Two Spanish Journalists, One Irish National Killed in Burkina Faso Ambush

Two Spanish Journalists, One Irish National Killed in Burkina Faso Ambush

Two Spanish journalists and an Irish national were killed Monday in eastern Burkina Faso by suspected jihadist insurgents.The journalists were...

Russia Fines Apple, Alleging Monopolistic Actions

Russia Fines Apple, Alleging Monopolistic Actions

Russia has fined Apple $12 million, alleging monopolistic activities.The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) said Tuesday that Apple was gaining an...

Brexit Crushes British Retirement Dreams in Spain

Brexit Crushes British Retirement Dreams in Spain

As the EU and Britain try to work out a deal to govern their trade relations after Brexit, the dreams that...

Ukrainian President Upbeat on Chances of Putin Meeting, New Cease-fire

Ukrainian President Upbeat on Chances of Putin Meeting, New Cease-fire

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Monday he was likely to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the conflict in...

UN-Mediated Talks to Reunify Cyprus Under Way

UN-Mediated Talks to Reunify Cyprus Under Way

Three days of U.N.-mediated talks are under way to try and reunify the island of Cyprus, which has been divided...

EU Lawmakers Debate Brexit Accord Before Decisive Vote

EU Lawmakers Debate Brexit Accord Before Decisive Vote

EU lawmakers debated the post-Brexit trade agreement between the European Union and Britain for the last time on Tuesday, ahead...

Britain Targets 22 People in First Use of Its Anti-corruption Law

Britain Targets 22 People in First Use of Its Anti-corruption Law

Britain froze assets, imposed sanctions and enacted travel bans on nearly two dozen people accused of bribery, kickbacks and fraud...

In France, New Museum-Memorial to Terrorism Takes Shape

In France, New Museum-Memorial to Terrorism Takes Shape

Last week’s killing of a police worker outside Paris offers a chilling reminder that terrorism has become a grim feature...

US Keeping Wary Eye on Russian Troops Near Ukraine

US Keeping Wary Eye on Russian Troops Near Ukraine

U.S. officials are not yet convinced Russia is making good on its word to de-escalate in Crimea and along its...

Erdogan Demands Biden Reverse Armenian Genocide Declaration

Erdogan Demands Biden Reverse Armenian Genocide Declaration

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday demanded that U.S. President Joe Biden reverse his declaration that the World War...

Apple Rolls Out Privacy Shield to Thwart Snoopy Apps

Apple Rolls Out Privacy Shield to Thwart Snoopy Apps

Apple is following through on its pledge to crack down on Facebook and other snoopy apps that secretly shadow people...

Cameroonian Startup’s Online Veterinary App Helps Remote Breeders

Cameroonian Startup’s Online Veterinary App Helps Remote Breeders

A Cameroonian company has created a veterinary counseling app designed to help farmers and ranchers who live far away from...

Turkey Puts 108 Pro-Kurdish Party Officials on Trial

Turkey Puts 108 Pro-Kurdish Party Officials on Trial

One hundred and eight prominent members of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP went on trial in the capital, Ankara, Monday in connection...