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”

Helsinki: Coronavirus-sniffing Dogs Could Provide Safer Travel

Helsinki: Coronavirus-sniffing Dogs Could Provide Safer Travel

Helsinki Airport is getting creative when it comes to operating safely in the age of COVID-19. Beginning this week, travelers...

Britain Plans Help for Workers Affected by Pandemic

Britain Plans Help for Workers Affected by Pandemic

British workers whose hours were cut because of the coronavirus pandemic could receive new government wage subsidies in the near...

Sir Harold Evans, Crusading Publisher and Author, Dies at 92

Sir Harold Evans, Crusading Publisher and Author, Dies at 92

Sir Harold Evans, the charismatic publisher, author and muckraker who was a bold-faced name for decades for exposing wrongdoing in...

Quarantine Ordered for 2,500 Students at Elite Swiss School

Quarantine Ordered for 2,500 Students at Elite Swiss School

Swiss health authorities have ordered a quarantine for a staggering 2,500 students at a prestigious hospitality management school in the...

Protests Erupt in Belarus Following Secret Lukashenko Swearing-In Ceremony

Protests Erupt in Belarus Following Secret Lukashenko Swearing-In Ceremony

Thousands of Belarusians staged mass demonstrations Wednesday night to denounce the secret inauguration of President Alexander Lukashenko.Security forces in the...

US Justice Department Proposes Changes to Internet Platforms’ Immunity

US Justice Department Proposes Changes to Internet Platforms’ Immunity

President Donald Trump met with nine Republican state attorneys general on Wednesday to discuss the fate of a legal immunity...

TikTok Asks Judge to Block US From Barring App for Download

TikTok Asks Judge to Block US From Barring App for Download

TikTok asked a U.S. judge on Wednesday to block a Trump administration order that would require Apple Inc and Alphabet...

World Becoming Less Accepting of Migrants, Poll Finds

World Becoming Less Accepting of Migrants, Poll Finds

As the European Union introduces a new migration and asylum plan after a blaze at an overcrowded camp in Greece...

Britain Imposes Pub Curfew as Coronavirus Cases Soar

Britain Imposes Pub Curfew as Coronavirus Cases Soar

Britain became the latest European country to impose restrictions on socializing Wednesday following a sharp rise in coronavirus transmission rates....

Belgium Eases COVID-19 Restrictions Despite Surging Cases

Belgium Eases COVID-19 Restrictions Despite Surging Cases

Belgium’s prime minister announced Wednesday she was lifting the nation’s mandatory outdoor mask requirement and easing other COVID-19-related restrictions, despite...

British Prime Minister Defends COVID-19 Testing

British Prime Minister Defends COVID-19 Testing

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his government’s COVID-19 testing plan Wednesday as opposition members in parliament claimed the government...

Brussels Unveils New Migrant Plan

Brussels Unveils New Migrant Plan

Five years after Europe’s migrant crisis, the European Union is unveiling a long-awaited migration plan Wednesday that stresses mandatory burden...

75th UNGA Virtual Format Creates Cybersecurity Challenges

75th UNGA Virtual Format Creates Cybersecurity Challenges

The 75th U.N. General Assembly is breaking new ground by going virtual this year due to the coronavirus. Along with...

German Coronavirus App Transmits 1.2 million Test Results in First 100 Days, Officials Say

German Coronavirus App Transmits 1.2 million Test Results in First 100 Days, Officials Say

Germany’s health ministry Wednesday said its coronavirus smartphone app has been downloaded more than 18 million times and transmitted 1.2...

Navalny Discharged from Hospital; Doctors Say ‘Complete Recovery’ Possible

Navalny Discharged from Hospital; Doctors Say ‘Complete Recovery’ Possible

Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny has been discharged from the Berlin hospital where he was being treated for what Germany has...

75th UNGA Move Online Creating Cybersecurity Challenges

75th UNGA Move Online Creating Cybersecurity Challenges

The 75th U.N. General Assembly is breaking new ground by going virtual this year due to the coronavirus. Along with...

Dirty Money, Criminal Cash: Bank Leaks Reveal Vast Scale of Global Fraud

Dirty Money, Criminal Cash: Bank Leaks Reveal Vast Scale of Global Fraud

Leaked documents allege that some of the world’s biggest banks have allowed $2 trillion  worth of suspicious or fraudulent activity...

EU Summit Postponed After Council President Quarantined

EU Summit Postponed After Council President Quarantined

A spokesman for European Council President Charles Michel says a summit of European Union leaders scheduled for Thursday and Friday...

US, Europol: Operation Disrupted Dark Web Opioid Trafficking 

US, Europol: Operation Disrupted Dark Web Opioid Trafficking 

The U.S. Justice Department and European law enforcement agency Europol Tuesday announced that 179 people were arrested following a nine-month...

Italy’s Coalition Government Fends off Salvini

Italy’s Coalition Government Fends off Salvini

Italy’s fragile coalition government breathed a collective sigh of relief Tuesday after voters denied the country’s populist leader Matteo Salvini...

Britain Enacts Restrictions as Coronavirus at ‘Perilous Turning Point’

Britain Enacts Restrictions as Coronavirus at ‘Perilous Turning Point’

Saying the nation has reached a “perilous turning point,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tuesday imposed new coronavirus-related restrictions on...

 Turkey Embarks on Naval Buildup, Stoking Tensions

 Turkey Embarks on Naval Buildup, Stoking Tensions

Turkey is in the midst of a major naval construction program, seeking to restore regional maritime influence lost since the...