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”

Poland’s Ruling Party Declares Victory in Divided Nation

Poland’s Ruling Party Declares Victory in Divided Nation

Poland’s conservative governing Law and Justice party won the most votes in Sunday’s election in the deeply divided nation and...

Clowns of the World Call on People to Find Joy, Laughter in Their Lives

Clowns of the World Call on People to Find Joy, Laughter in Their Lives

Things are tough all over, so some red-nosed, seltzer-spraying, pie-tossing lovers of fun said: Let’s find some joy.  VOA’s Arash...

Putin Heads to Saudi Arabia, Offers Himself as Peacemaker

Putin Heads to Saudi Arabia, Offers Himself as Peacemaker

Russian leader Vladimir Putin travels to Saudi Arabia, a traditional U.S. ally, Monday, offering to act as a peacemaker between...

74 Migrants Rescued off Libyan Coast, 110 Others Turned Back

74 Migrants Rescued off Libyan Coast, 110 Others Turned Back

Humanitarian groups on Sunday said they have rescued 74 migrants on a rubber boat in the Mediterranean Sea off the...

Pope Canonizes John Henry Newman, 19th-Century Theologian

Pope Canonizes John Henry Newman, 19th-Century Theologian

With Prince Charles looking on, Pope Francis on Sunday canonized Cardinal John Henry Newman, praising the 19th-century Anglican convert who...

Brexit Divorce Talks Between UK and EU Go Down to the Wire

Brexit Divorce Talks Between UK and EU Go Down to the Wire

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to brief his Cabinet on the progress of last-minute Brexit talks with the...

Voters in Poland, Hungary Vote in Parliamentary Elections 

Voters in Poland, Hungary Vote in Parliamentary Elections 

Poles are voting Sunday in a parliamentary election that the ruling party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski is favored to win easily,...

US Tech Firms Drawn Into Hong Kong Protesters Standoff With China

US Tech Firms Drawn Into Hong Kong Protesters Standoff With China

With Hong Kong anti-government protests ongoing, tech companies in the U.S. are being drawn into the crisis. The standoff between...

UK Long Way From Brexit Deal, Downing Street Source Says

UK Long Way From Brexit Deal, Downing Street Source Says

Britain remains a long way from agreeing on a final Brexit deal and the next few days will be critical...

Turkish Forces Say They’ve Captured Key Syrian Border Town

Turkish Forces Say They’ve Captured Key Syrian Border Town

Turkey’s military said it captured a key Syrian border town under heavy bombardment Saturday in its most significant gain since...

WFP Says 100,000 in Syria Flee Turkish Offensive

WFP Says 100,000 in Syria Flee Turkish Offensive

Ali Javanmardi from VOA’s Persian Service contributed to this report from Irbil.The World Food Program says more than 100,000 people...

On Amazon’s List of Principles: Regulate Facial Recognition Tech

On Amazon’s List of Principles: Regulate Facial Recognition Tech

Amazon is endorsing the idea of government regulation of facial recognition technology, as part of a wide-ranging statement of its...

Nobel in Literature to Austrian Author Stirs Controversy

Nobel in Literature to Austrian Author Stirs Controversy

VOA’s Dzeilana Pecanin and Ivana Kostantinovic contributed to this report.Almost immediately after Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austria’s Peter Handke were...

Daughter of Jailed British-Iranian Woman Returns to Britain

Daughter of Jailed British-Iranian Woman Returns to Britain

The 5-year-old daughter of a British-Iranian woman jailed in Tehran since 2016 has arrived back in Britain, her father said...

African Women in Tech Look to Artificial Intelligence

African Women in Tech Look to Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence took center stage as African female technology experts met at Women in Tech Week in Ghana to promote...

Official: Prince William, Kate to Visit Pakistan Oct. 14

Official: Prince William, Kate to Visit Pakistan Oct. 14

Pakistan’s foreign minister says Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate will arrive in the capital, Islamabad, on a four-day...

Ex-US Ambassador to Ukraine Says Trump Applied Pressure to Remove Her From Post

Ex-US Ambassador to Ukraine Says Trump Applied Pressure to Remove Her From Post

The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House committees leading the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump that...

Pentagon Urges Turkey to Halt Incursion Into Syria

Pentagon Urges Turkey to Halt Incursion Into Syria

The Pentagon on Friday urged Turkey to halt its military incursion into Syria, saying it threatens progress in combating the...

Arrested Japanese Stalker Used Pupil Image Reflections

Arrested Japanese Stalker Used Pupil Image Reflections

A man arrested on suspicion of stalking a female pop idol used the reflections of her pupils in photos she...

Renault Ousts CEO Who Replaced Jailed Former Head Ghosn

Renault Ousts CEO Who Replaced Jailed Former Head Ghosn

French carmaker Renault dismissed its chief executive officer on Friday, overhauling its leadership once again after the jailing of its...

EU: Brexit Deal Growing More Likely, Talks With UK Extended

EU: Brexit Deal Growing More Likely, Talks With UK Extended

The European Union said Friday that talks with the U.K. to find an amicable divorce deal were back on track,...

Trump Threatens Turkey with Consequences if Civilians Hurt in Offensive on Kurds

Trump Threatens Turkey with Consequences if Civilians Hurt in Offensive on Kurds

U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. mission of defeating Islamic State in Syria is accomplished and that he plans...