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”

Alleged Norwegian Spy Returns Home After Russian Prison Time

Alleged Norwegian Spy Returns Home After Russian Prison Time

A Norwegian man convicted of espionage in Russia has returned to his native country after a Cold War-style spy swap...

Venice Braces for Third Exceptional Tide of Week

Venice Braces for Third Exceptional Tide of Week

Venetians are bracing for the prospect of another exceptional tide in a season that is setting records.Officials are forecasting a...

Pakistani Women Advance in Tech

Pakistani Women Advance in Tech

A few Pakistani women friends, working for big tech companies in the U.S., decided they wanted to create the mentoring...

Prince Andrew Disputes Accusations of Epstein Accuser

Prince Andrew Disputes Accusations of Epstein Accuser

Prince Andrew offered a detailed rebuttal Saturday to claims he had sex with a woman who says she was trafficked...

UK’s Johnson Says All Conservative Candidates Vowed to Back His Brexit Deal

UK’s Johnson Says All Conservative Candidates Vowed to Back His Brexit Deal

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says all Conservative Party candidates in the upcoming election have pledged to back his Brexit deal. “All...

Germany Arrests Citizen Accused of IS Membership Upon Return Home

Germany Arrests Citizen Accused of IS Membership Upon Return Home

A federal judge on Saturday ordered that a German citizen arrested on her return to the country on suspicion of...

Yellow Vest Protesters Mark Anniversary With Rallies, Violence 

Yellow Vest Protesters Mark Anniversary With Rallies, Violence 

France’s yellow vests staged demonstrations Saturday to mark the one-year anniversary of a protest movement for greater economic justice that once captured...

Top Diplomats, Experts: US Support Essential to Ukraine’s Fight Against Russia

Top Diplomats, Experts: US Support Essential to Ukraine’s Fight Against Russia

The impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump centers on the question of whether he suspended close to 400 million dollars...

House, Senate Agree on Something: A Way to Fight Robocalls

House, Senate Agree on Something: A Way to Fight Robocalls

It’s looking like an anti-robocall bill will be sent to President Donald Trump this year, helping tackle an infuriating problem...

Twitter Details Political Ad Ban, Admits It’s Imperfect 

Twitter Details Political Ad Ban, Admits It’s Imperfect 

Twitter’s new ban on political ads will cover appeals for votes, solicitations for campaign contributions and any political content. But...

2019 May Be Deadliest Year for Migrants in Americas, UN Agency Says 

2019 May Be Deadliest Year for Migrants in Americas, UN Agency Says 

The International Organization for Migration said Friday that 2019 might be the deadliest year for migrant deaths in the Americas...

‘Unpredictability’ is NATO’s Greatest Challenge Stoltenberg Says

‘Unpredictability’ is NATO’s Greatest Challenge Stoltenberg Says

VOA Serbian service’s Jela de Franceschi spoke with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg about the shifting global alliances in the...

Esper Defends as Fair Pentagon Contract Disputed by Amazon

Esper Defends as Fair Pentagon Contract Disputed by Amazon

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday he was certain that the awarding of a $10 billion cloud-computing contract to...

Venice flooded Again 3 Days After Near-Record High Tide

Venice flooded Again 3 Days After Near-Record High Tide

Exceptionally high tidal waters returned to Venice on Friday, prompting the mayor to close the iconic St. Mark’s Square and...

Boris Johnson Fights Winter Blues in a Drenched Election Campaign

Boris Johnson Fights Winter Blues in a Drenched Election Campaign

Britain’s ruling Conservatives are banking heavily on the star quality of their leader, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who’s had an...

US Says It Won’t Abandon Fight Against IS in Syria

US Says It Won’t Abandon Fight Against IS in Syria

The United States is promising not to abandon the fight to eradicate the Islamic State terror group, while pushing its...

Facebook Removes Millions of Posts and Billions of Fake Accounts

Facebook Removes Millions of Posts and Billions of Fake Accounts

Facebook released its Community Standards Enforcement Report on Wednesday, detailing its work in regulating its main app and Instagram from...

China Tests Mars Lander in Push for International Cooperation

China Tests Mars Lander in Push for International Cooperation

China invited observers to a successful test Thursday of its Mars lander as the country pushes for inclusion in more...

Facebook Signs Lease for Office Space in Hudson Yards

Facebook Signs Lease for Office Space in Hudson Yards

Facebook Inc signed a lease for over 1.5 million square feet of office space across 30 floors and three buildings...

GOP Senators Confronted Erdogan Over Video, Participants Say

GOP Senators Confronted Erdogan Over Video, Participants Say

A band of GOP senators rebuffed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s effort to depict anti-Islamic State Kurd forces as terrorists...

Erdogan Says Turkey Won’t Dispose of Russian S-400s

Erdogan Says Turkey Won’t Dispose of Russian S-400s

Turkey is willing to purchase U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems but will not agree to disposing of the Russian S-400...

Estonian Minister: Russian Security Services Used Estonia to Fund Activities Abroad

Estonian Minister: Russian Security Services Used Estonia to Fund Activities Abroad

Russia’s security services moved money through Estonia to finance operations overseas, the Baltic country’s finance minister, who is leading a...