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”

London’s Famous Tower Bridge Gets Stuck in Open Position

London’s Famous Tower Bridge Gets Stuck in Open Position

London’s famous Tower Bridge, which crosses the River Thames in the heart of the British capital, was stuck open Saturday,...

Belarus Opposition Calls on West to Reaffirm Country’s Territorial Integrity

Belarus Opposition Calls on West to Reaffirm Country’s Territorial Integrity

Belarus opposition figures are urging Western governments to collectively make it clear to the Kremlin that Russia must avoid a...

UN Calls on Belarus to Release Peaceful Protesters Arbitrarily Detained

UN Calls on Belarus to Release Peaceful Protesters Arbitrarily Detained

The U.N. Human Rights office is calling on Belarusian authorities to immediately release all people unlawfully arrested during anti-government protests,...

Facebook in India Embroiled in Political Hate Speech Controversy

Facebook in India Embroiled in Political Hate Speech Controversy

Facebook’s India chief said Friday the social media giant denounces hate and bigotry in the wake of a controversy sparked...

Airplane With Comatose Russian Opposition Leader Lands in Germany 

Airplane With Comatose Russian Opposition Leader Lands in Germany 

A plane carrying Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning, touched down Saturday morning...

Former US Army Officer Arrested on Charges of Spying for Russia

Former US Army Officer Arrested on Charges of Spying for Russia

A former U.S. Army Special Forces officer was arrested on Friday on charges of spying for Russia, the second foreign...

Russian Doctors OK Kremlin Critic Navalny for Medical Travel

Russian Doctors OK Kremlin Critic Navalny for Medical Travel

Russian doctors announced they had acquiesced to demands to allow opposition leader Alexey Navalny medical treatment in Germany — ending...

Plane with Russian Opposition Leader Departs for Germany

Plane with Russian Opposition Leader Departs for Germany

An airplane taking Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to Berlin for medical treatment left the Siberian city of Omsk on...

Turkey Calls Natural Gas Discovery ‘Historic Day’ for Energy-Dependent Country

Turkey Calls Natural Gas Discovery ‘Historic Day’ for Energy-Dependent Country

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Friday the discovery of a vast natural gas field in the Black Sea. With...

Russia Clears Kremlin Critic Navalny to Be Airlifted to Germany in Coma

Russia Clears Kremlin Critic Navalny to Be Airlifted to Germany in Coma

Russian doctors said Friday that gravely ill Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny could be flown to Germany to receive medical care...

Malta Police Question Former PM About Killing of Journalist

Malta Police Question Former PM About Killing of Journalist

Police on Friday questioned former Malta Prime Minister Joseph Muscat about testimony given to officers by businessman Yorgen Fenech, the...

Trump Wants Supreme Court OK to Block Critics on His Personal Twitter

Trump Wants Supreme Court OK to Block Critics on His Personal Twitter

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to allow him to block critics from his personal Twitter account. The administration...

Telegram App Helps Drive Belarus Protests

Telegram App Helps Drive Belarus Protests

Every day, like clockwork, to-do lists for those protesting against Belarus’ authoritarian leader appear in the popular Telegram messaging app....

Will Fatal Moments Seal Autocrat’s Fate?

Will Fatal Moments Seal Autocrat’s Fate?

Autocrats fall when people lose their fear — and that moment can be signaled dramatically by a simple jeer. As...

EU Negotiator Says Timely Brexit Deal ‘Unlikely’

EU Negotiator Says Timely Brexit Deal ‘Unlikely’

The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said Friday the latest round of trade talks with Britain was at...

US Warship in Crete as Greek-Turkish Standoff Grows

US Warship in Crete as Greek-Turkish Standoff Grows

The massive American warship, the USS Hershel Woody Williams, has arrived at the Greek island of Crete as tensions escalate between...

Russian Opposition Leader’s Family says Moscow Covering Up Poisoning Attempt

Russian Opposition Leader’s Family says Moscow Covering Up Poisoning Attempt

Family and associates of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny accuse Moscow of blocking his medical evacuation to Germany to cover...

Hundreds in Bialystok, Poland Protest Lukashenko

Hundreds in Bialystok, Poland Protest Lukashenko

Hundreds of people took to the streets of the Polish city of Bialystok on Thursday evening to demonstrate against the...

Pompeo: US Stands by Belarusian People, Backs International Efforts to Examine Election

Pompeo: US Stands by Belarusian People, Backs International Efforts to Examine Election

The United States on Thursday defended Belarusian protesters and said it supported international efforts to examine the recent contested election,...

Brother of Manchester Arena Bomber Sentenced to at Least 55 Years

Brother of Manchester Arena Bomber Sentenced to at Least 55 Years

The brother of a suicide bomber who killed 22 people in 2017 at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England,...

French, German Leaders Meet to Discuss EU Economy, Other Issues 

French, German Leaders Meet to Discuss EU Economy, Other Issues 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron met Thursday at the French presidential retreat on the Mediterranean Sea...

Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Meets Angela Merkel

Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Meets Angela Merkel

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and three other teen activists had a 90-minute meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in...