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”

Russia Blacklists More Than 200 Jehovah’s Witnesses

Russia Blacklists More Than 200 Jehovah’s Witnesses

Russian authorities have added more than 200 Jehovah’s Witnesses to a register of extremists and terrorists, the organization said in...

US Prosecutors Eye Uptick In Chinese Economic Espionage Cases 

US Prosecutors Eye Uptick In Chinese Economic Espionage Cases 

The FBI is conducting roughly 1,000 investigations into suspected Chinese theft of U.S. intellectual property, with many expected to result...

Students Explore Virtual Reality

Students Explore Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality, which immerses viewers in three-dimensional computer-generated worlds, is transforming many fields, from entertainment to education. Mike O’Sullivan reports...

New Kosovo Prime Minister Pledges to Remove 100% Serbian Import Tariffs

New Kosovo Prime Minister Pledges to Remove 100% Serbian Import Tariffs

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti pledges to abolish the 100% tariffs on Serbian imports, an impediment in normalization efforts between...

As Britain Leaves the EU, Some Leave Britain

As Britain Leaves the EU, Some Leave Britain

Britain is letting European Union citizens stay once the country completes its transition out of the EU at the end...

Lawyers to ICC: Free Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo Unconditionally

Lawyers to ICC: Free Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo Unconditionally

Lawyers for former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo urged International Criminal Court judges Thursday to lift conditions they imposed on...

FBI Director Warns of Ongoing Russian ‘Information Warfare’

FBI Director Warns of Ongoing Russian ‘Information Warfare’

FBI Director Chris Wray said Wednesday that Russia is engaged in “information warfare” heading into the 2020 presidential election, though...

Merkel: Governor’s Election With Far-Right Help Inexcusable

Merkel: Governor’s Election With Far-Right Help Inexcusable

Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned as “inexcusable” the election of a new German state governor with the help of the far-right...

White House Official: China Should Join Nuclear Arms Talks With Russia

White House Official: China Should Join Nuclear Arms Talks With Russia

U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said Wednesday that China should join the United States in trilateral arms talks...

Report: Africa Delivers Largest Profits on Investment

Report: Africa Delivers Largest Profits on Investment

British companies have made bigger profits investing in Africa than in any other region of the world, according to a...

Journalists See Specter of Censorship in Ukraine’s Proposed Media Laws

Journalists See Specter of Censorship in Ukraine’s Proposed Media Laws

Journalists and free speech advocates say proposed laws to regulate Ukraine’s media pose a threat to free expression and independent...

Britain’s Boris Johnson Moves to Keep Terrorists Imprisoned

Britain’s Boris Johnson Moves to Keep Terrorists Imprisoned

Britain’s deradicalization programs are once again in the spotlight after Sunday’s terror knife attack in which two people were injured...

Plane Skids Off Istanbul Runway, Breaks Into Pieces; 21 Hurt

Plane Skids Off Istanbul Runway, Breaks Into Pieces; 21 Hurt

A plane skidded off the runway Wednesday at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen Airport, crashing into a field and breaking into pieces....

Iran-Linked Hackers Pose as Journalists in Email Scam

Iran-Linked Hackers Pose as Journalists in Email Scam

When Iranian-born German academic Erfan Kasraie received an email from The Wall Street Journal requesting an interview, he sensed something...

Virus Fallout Hits Lake Baikal as Chinese Tourists Stay Away

Virus Fallout Hits Lake Baikal as Chinese Tourists Stay Away

Winter is high season for tourism around Lake Baikal in Siberia, but the coronavirus outbreak has curtailed its main source...

Adidas Closes ‘Considerable’ Number of Stores in China Due to Coronavirus

Adidas Closes ‘Considerable’ Number of Stores in China Due to Coronavirus

German sportswear company Adidas on Wednesday said it was temporarily shutting a “considerable” number of its stores in China due...

UK Government, At Odds With Media, Set to Review BBC Funding

UK Government, At Odds With Media, Set to Review BBC Funding

Britain’s government announced Wednesday that it is considering a change in the way the BBC is funded that would hit...

Denmark Jails 3 Men Suspected of Spying for Saudi Arabia

Denmark Jails 3 Men Suspected of Spying for Saudi Arabia

Three men who are members of an Iranian separatist group, the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz, have...

5 killed in Avalanche in Eastern Turkey; 2 Missing

5 killed in Avalanche in Eastern Turkey; 2 Missing

An avalanche hit a road in eastern Turkey, burying a snow-clearing vehicle and a minibus, and killing at least five...

Russia Establishes Siberian Quarantine Center for Coronavirus 

Russia Establishes Siberian Quarantine Center for Coronavirus 

Russia’s government took additional measures to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus across the border from China, with a Kremlin...

Military Talks to End Libya Fighting Underway

Military Talks to End Libya Fighting Underway

U.N.-sponsored military and security talks aimed at achieving a lasting cease-fire in Libya are underway in Geneva. The negotiations are...

Turkish-Russian Tension Over Syria Opens Door to Washington

Turkish-Russian Tension Over Syria Opens Door to Washington

Questions about the future of Turkey’s rapprochement with Russia are growing as fallout continues from Monday’s killing of at least...