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”

Putin Critic Navalny’s Health Improving, German Hospital Says

Putin Critic Navalny’s Health Improving, German Hospital Says

The health of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is improving, and he now has been taken out of an induced...

Report: Leading Belarus Opposition Figure Abducted

Report: Leading Belarus Opposition Figure Abducted

Maria Kolesnikova, a leading member of Belarus’ opposition, was reportedly seized by unidentified men in Minsk on Monday as demonstrations...

UK Judge Rejects Bid to Delay Assange Extradition Hearing

UK Judge Rejects Bid to Delay Assange Extradition Hearing

A British judge on Monday rejected a request by lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to delay his extradition hearing...

Russian Spokeswoman Apologizes for Facebook Post About Serbian President

Russian Spokeswoman Apologizes for Facebook Post About Serbian President

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has apologized for a Facebook post in which she compared the photo of Serbian...

Facebook Post Sparks Rare Spat Between Serbia, Russia After US-Brokered Deal

Facebook Post Sparks Rare Spat Between Serbia, Russia After US-Brokered Deal

A social media post by Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman apparently ridiculing Serbia’s president after he signed a U.S.-sponsored agreement between...

Johnson Says UK Will Quit Brexit Talks if No Deal by Oct 15

Johnson Says UK Will Quit Brexit Talks if No Deal by Oct 15

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson talked tough on Sunday ahead of a crucial round of post-Brexit trade talks with the...

Large Protests Against Belarus’ Lukashenko Persist

Large Protests Against Belarus’ Lukashenko Persist

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets Sunday of major Belarusian cities in the latest weekend of demonstrations...

Greece Beefs up Patrols Along Borders with Turkey  

Greece Beefs up Patrols Along Borders with Turkey  

Greece is beefing up land patrols to stem a rising tide of illegal migrants trickling in from neighboring Turkey. With...

Hungarian Protesters Demand Academic Freedom for Top Arts University

Hungarian Protesters Demand Academic Freedom for Top Arts University

Several thousand people protested Sunday for the independence of Hungary’s University of Theatre and Film Arts following the imposition of...

Large Protests Against Lukashenko Persist  

Large Protests Against Lukashenko Persist  

Protesters once again took to the streets of Belarus Sunday, the latest in nearly a month of demonstrations following disupted elections that left longtime...

Czech President Tries to Tamp Down China Anger After Speaker’s Taiwan Trip  

Czech President Tries to Tamp Down China Anger After Speaker’s Taiwan Trip  

President Milos Zeman sought on Sunday to defuse a row with China over a visit by the head of the...

Pandemic Turns Summer into European Tourism’s Leanest Season

Pandemic Turns Summer into European Tourism’s Leanest Season

Bruges mayor Dirk De fauw first realized something was desperately wrong with European tourism when on a brisk March morning...

Facebook Blocks Ailing Man’s Planned End-of-Life Broadcasts

Facebook Blocks Ailing Man’s Planned End-of-Life Broadcasts

Facebook on Saturday blocked live broadcasts from a bedridden, chronically ill man who appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron for...

Record Pub Lockdown Leaves Rural Ireland High and Dry

Record Pub Lockdown Leaves Rural Ireland High and Dry

In the pubs of Dunmore in the west of Ireland, the Guinness glasses gather dust and the kegs are stacked...

No Sign of End to Far East Anti-Kremlin Rallies After Nearly Two Months

No Sign of End to Far East Anti-Kremlin Rallies After Nearly Two Months

Weekly rallies against the Kremlin in Russia’s Far East showed no sign of ending after nearly two months, with around...

Belarusian Opposition Activist Kovalkova Leaves Country After Arrest

Belarusian Opposition Activist Kovalkova Leaves Country After Arrest

Belarusian opposition activist Olga Kovalkova arrived in the Polish capital, Warsaw, on Saturday, saying she had been forced by authorities...

Erdogan Raises Rhetoric in Greece Standoff in Mediterranean

Erdogan Raises Rhetoric in Greece Standoff in Mediterranean

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned Greece to enter talks over disputed eastern Mediterranean territorial claims or face...

Belarusian Journalists Sentenced to 3-Day Jail Terms Amid Crackdown on Post-Election Protests

Belarusian Journalists Sentenced to 3-Day Jail Terms Amid Crackdown on Post-Election Protests

Six Belarusian journalists detained earlier this week while covering an anti-government protest in Minsk were sentenced to three days in...

Masked Men Drag Protesting Belarusian Students Off the Streets

Masked Men Drag Protesting Belarusian Students Off the Streets

Masked security agents dragged students off the streets and bundled them into vans as new protests broke out against Belarusian...

US-Brokered Serbia-Kosovo Deal a ‘Step Forward’ But Challenges Remain

US-Brokered Serbia-Kosovo Deal a ‘Step Forward’ But Challenges Remain

Serbia and Kosovo signed a U.S.-brokered agreement in Washington Friday to normalize economic relations.   Reached after two days of...

European Attitudes Harden as Czech Visit to Taiwan Triggers Chinese Fury

European Attitudes Harden as Czech Visit to Taiwan Triggers Chinese Fury

A bitter dispute between China and the Czech Republic threatens to affect relations between Europe and Beijing. A delegation from...

Facebook Removes Pages of Right-wing Group Patriot Prayer After Portland Unrest

Facebook Removes Pages of Right-wing Group Patriot Prayer After Portland Unrest

Facebook Inc on Friday removed the pages of U.S. right-wing group Patriot Prayer and its founder Joey Gibson, a company...