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”

United Nations General Assembly Opens Historic Session Tuesday

United Nations General Assembly Opens Historic Session Tuesday

For the first time in its 75-year history, leaders of the United Nations’ 193 member states will deliver their annual...

UN Marks 75th Anniversary in Atmosphere of New Challenges 

UN Marks 75th Anniversary in Atmosphere of New Challenges 

The United Nations marked the 75th anniversary of its founding on Monday, amid a global pandemic and other serious challenges that the U.N....

British Health Minister Lays Out COVID-19 Response as Cases Surge

British Health Minister Lays Out COVID-19 Response as Cases Surge

Britain’s health minister went before parliament Monday to discuss the government’s response to a surge in positive COVID-19 cases in...

Turkey’s Plan to Regain Ottoman Empire Maritime Influence Irks Greece

Turkey’s Plan to Regain Ottoman Empire Maritime Influence Irks Greece

Turkey is embarking on a major naval construction program to restore the regional maritime influence it lost after the Ottoman empire’s...

Navalny Demands Russia Return Clothes for Poisoning Investigation

Navalny Demands Russia Return Clothes for Poisoning Investigation

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny demanded Monday that Russia return the clothes he was wearing when he fell ill last...

What Fight Over TikTok Portends for Tech

What Fight Over TikTok Portends for Tech

The battle between China and the U.S. over the fate of video sharing app TikTok raises questions for the tech...

US Challenges Injunction Against WeChat App Store Bans

US Challenges Injunction Against WeChat App Store Bans

The U.S. Commerce Department said Monday it is challenging a federal judge’s injunction against its order that Apple and Google...

Western Europe Scrambling to Avoid National Lockdowns

Western Europe Scrambling to Avoid National Lockdowns

Western European states are scrambling to curb a second coronavirus wave of infections by re-imposing pandemic restrictions lifted just weeks...

EU Foreign Ministers Meet Belarus Opposition Leader  

EU Foreign Ministers Meet Belarus Opposition Leader  

Foreign ministers of European Union member countries met with Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Brussels Monday, as they are...

Reports: ‘FinCEN’ Documents Show Banks Moved Suspect Funds

Reports: ‘FinCEN’ Documents Show Banks Moved Suspect Funds

Several global banks moved large sums of allegedly illicit funds over a period of nearly two decades, despite red flags...

Greece: Fire in Migrant Camp on Samos Island ‘Under Control’

Greece: Fire in Migrant Camp on Samos Island ‘Under Control’

A fire broke out Sunday evening in the reception and identification center for asylum-seekers on the Greek island of Samos...

Russian Jets Strike Syrian Rebel-Held Bastion in Heaviest Strikes Since Cease-fire 

Russian Jets Strike Syrian Rebel-Held Bastion in Heaviest Strikes Since Cease-fire 

Syrian opposition sources said Russian jets bombed rebel-held northwestern Syria on Sunday in the most extensive strikes since a Turkish-Russian...

US Judge Blocks Order to Remove WeChat From App Stores 

US Judge Blocks Order to Remove WeChat From App Stores 

A U.S. judge early Sunday blocked the Commerce Department from requiring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google to remove Chinese-owned...

Greece Scrambles to Rehouse Homeless Migrants, Refugees on Lesbos 

Greece Scrambles to Rehouse Homeless Migrants, Refugees on Lesbos 

For Rahaf al Mohammed, the Moria refugee center was a living hell, but now, after militant arsonists last week razed...

Newspaper: Facebook Tells Irish Court That Probe Threatens Its EU Operations

Newspaper: Facebook Tells Irish Court That Probe Threatens Its EU Operations

Facebook has told Ireland’s High Court it cannot see how its services could operate in the European Union if regulators...

Robert W. Gore, Inventor of Gore-Tex Fabric, Dead at 83 

Robert W. Gore, Inventor of Gore-Tex Fabric, Dead at 83 

Robert W. Gore, whose invention of what created the breathable-yet-waterproof fabric known as Gore-Tex revolutionized outdoor wear and helped spawn...

Sweden Spared Surge of Virus Cases but Many Questions Remain

Sweden Spared Surge of Virus Cases but Many Questions Remain

A train pulls into the Odenplan subway station in central Stockholm, where morning commuters without masks get off or board...

Carpenters Wow Public with Medieval Techniques at Notre Dame

Carpenters Wow Public with Medieval Techniques at Notre Dame

With precision and boundless energy, a team of carpenters used medieval techniques to raise up — by hand — a...

First Native American Racer Blazes Trail at Tour de France

First Native American Racer Blazes Trail at Tour de France

A late draft to the Tour de France, Neilson Powless didn’t have time to scramble together a turtle necklace, the...

Russia’s Navalny Says He’s Now More Than ‘Technically Alive’

Russia’s Navalny Says He’s Now More Than ‘Technically Alive’

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he is recovering his verbal and physical abilities at the German hospital where he...

Pogacar as Stunned as Everyone After Shock Tour de France Upset

Pogacar as Stunned as Everyone After Shock Tour de France Upset

Tadej Pogacar was left as shocked as fans, pundits and fellow riders after pulling off one of the biggest upsets...

Police, Protesters Clash as London Eyes Tighter Virus Rules

Police, Protesters Clash as London Eyes Tighter Virus Rules

Police in London clashed with protesters Saturday at a rally against coronavirus restrictions, even as the mayor warned that it...