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”

Iran Lawyer: No Proof of Charges Against 2 French Citizens

Iran Lawyer: No Proof of Charges Against 2 French Citizens

An Iranian lawyer representing two French researchers in custody in Tehran says prosecutors have given no evidence of spying and...

Pope Declares Vatican’s Secret Archive not so Secret Anymore

Pope Declares Vatican’s Secret Archive not so Secret Anymore

Pope Francis has declared that the Vatican Secret Archive isn’t so secret after all.Francis on Monday officially changed the name...

Italy’s Salvini Triumphs in Regional Elections in Umbria

Italy’s Salvini Triumphs in Regional Elections in Umbria

A right-wing coalition scored a net victory in a local election in the central Italian region of Umbria, official data...

EU Grants New Brexit Delay to Jan. 31

EU Grants New Brexit Delay to Jan. 31

The European Union agreed to delay Brexit until Jan. 31 next year on Monday — just three days before it was...

British Police Share Training with Social Media In Hopes of Crushing Live-Streamed Terror

British Police Share Training with Social Media In Hopes of Crushing Live-Streamed Terror

Questions arose after a gunman in Christchurch, New Zealand, live-streamed a video of himself opening fire at a mosque earlier...

Maryland University Trusts Drones With Organ Delivery

Maryland University Trusts Drones With Organ Delivery

Drones are being taught to deliver food and medical supplies to customers. Now, doctors and scientists at the University of...

Technology Remaking How We See Ancient Art of Theater

Technology Remaking How We See Ancient Art of Theater

When James Corden kicked off the Tony Awards this year, his opening number was a full-throated endorsement of the live...

Facebook Launches News Section, Will Pay Publishers 

Facebook Launches News Section, Will Pay Publishers 

Over the course of its 15-year history, Facebook has variously ignored news organizations while eating their advertising revenue, courted them...

Pentagon Awards Microsoft $10B Cloud Computing Contract

Pentagon Awards Microsoft $10B Cloud Computing Contract

The Pentagon awarded Microsoft a $10 billion cloud computing contract , snubbing early front-runner Amazon, whose competitive bid drew criticism...

Tens of Thousands March in Barcelona Urging Spanish Unity

Tens of Thousands March in Barcelona Urging Spanish Unity

Tens of thousands of people are marching in Barcelona to protest the separatist movement in the northeastern Catalonia region that...

Police, Catalan Separatists Clash as Day of Protest Ends in Violence

Police, Catalan Separatists Clash as Day of Protest Ends in Violence

Clashes between police and militant elements in a thousands-strong crowd of demonstrators transformed part of central Barcelona into a battleground late on Saturday as...

UK Opposition Parties Suggest Dec. 9 Vote in Brexit Gambit

UK Opposition Parties Suggest Dec. 9 Vote in Brexit Gambit

Two British opposition parties want to hold elections even earlier than Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed as they try...

47 US States Back Antitrust Probe Into Facebook

47 US States Back Antitrust Probe Into Facebook

New York Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday that a state-level antitrust investigation into the social network now has the...

Ukrainian Journalist Held by Russia-Backed Separatists Sentenced to 15 Years

Ukrainian Journalist Held by Russia-Backed Separatists Sentenced to 15 Years

A court established by Russia-backed separatists who hold parts of eastern Ukraine has sentenced journalist Stanislav Aseyev, an RFE/RL contributor,...

Diplomat Provides House With ‘Disturbing’ Account on Ukraine

Diplomat Provides House With ‘Disturbing’ Account on Ukraine

Former U.S. Ambassador William Taylor, a diplomat who has sharply questioned President Donald Trump’s policy on Ukraine, has provided lawmakers...

Kurdish Fighters Say They Have Withdrawn From Northern Syria

Kurdish Fighters Say They Have Withdrawn From Northern Syria

Syrian Kurdish forces said Tuesday they have totally withdrawn from northern Syria ahead of the end of a cease-fire in...

Vatican Denies Risk of Default Over Structural Deficit

Vatican Denies Risk of Default Over Structural Deficit

A top Vatican administrator is denying the Holy See risks default over its structural deficit, saying claims in a new...

Russia, Turkey Leaders Hold Talks on Fate of Syria Border

Russia, Turkey Leaders Hold Talks on Fate of Syria Border

The presidents of Turkey and Russia met in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi on Tuesday, hours before a...

Swiss File Their 1st Charges in Petrobras-Odebrecht Scandal

Swiss File Their 1st Charges in Petrobras-Odebrecht Scandal

Swiss prosecutors have filed their first indictment in investigations related to Brazilian construction company Odebrecht and state-run oil giant Petrobras,...

British PM Johnson Faces 2 Crucial Brexit Votes in Parliament Tuesday

British PM Johnson Faces 2 Crucial Brexit Votes in Parliament Tuesday

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan for the country to leave the European Union faces two key votes in the...

Is Russia’s Vladimir Putin Color-Blind?

Is Russia’s Vladimir Putin Color-Blind?

Apparently persuaded by groundless conspiracy theories of foreign meddling, the Kremlin and Russia’s security agencies seem impervious to calls for...

Paris Zoo Unveils Mysterious Bright Yellow ‘Blob’

Paris Zoo Unveils Mysterious Bright Yellow ‘Blob’

The Paris Zoo is welcoming a new occupant — the “blob.”  This bright yellow, unicellular, brainless organism, exists all over...