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”

Huge Crowds Expected for London Pro-Palestinian Rally 

Huge Crowds Expected for London Pro-Palestinian Rally 

Hundreds of thousands of protesters are expected to join a pro-Palestinian march in London on Saturday, a rally Prime Minister...

Quakes Rock Southwestern Iceland as Volcanic Eruption Looms

Quakes Rock Southwestern Iceland as Volcanic Eruption Looms

Iceland declared a state of emergency on Friday after a series of powerful earthquakes rocked the country’s southwestern Reykjanes peninsula...

Belgium Arrests Suspect, Raids Continue in Far-Right Terror Inquiry

Belgium Arrests Suspect, Raids Continue in Far-Right Terror Inquiry

Belgian anti-terrorism investigators on Friday were holding one alleged member of an extreme right group suspected of preparing bomb attacks...

Internet Collapses in Yemen Over ‘Maintenance’ After Houthi Attacks Targeting Israel, US

Internet Collapses in Yemen Over ‘Maintenance’ After Houthi Attacks Targeting Israel, US

Internet access across the war-torn nation of Yemen collapsed Friday and stayed down for hours, with officials later blaming unannounced...

Dnipro River, a ‘Rampart’ Winding Through Ukraine War

Dnipro River, a ‘Rampart’ Winding Through Ukraine War

A sweeping plain dotted with ruined houses stretched into the horizon and toward the blue expanse of the Dnipro River,...

More Grain Reaching Ukraine Black Sea Ports, Rail Official Says

More Grain Reaching Ukraine Black Sea Ports, Rail Official Says

The number of rail freight cars heading to the ports of Ukraine’s Odesa region continued to rise over the past...

British Ministry: War Has Russia ‘Overextended’

British Ministry: War Has Russia ‘Overextended’

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is overextending Russia’s domestic military resources and is straining “its ability to retain baseline defenses across...

Countries in Crisis Top Recipients of Chinese Aid

Countries in Crisis Top Recipients of Chinese Aid

Russia, Venezuela and Pakistan are the top three recipients of Chinese development funding in the past two decades, but the...

Paris Conference Mobilizes Aid for Gaza

Paris Conference Mobilizes Aid for Gaza

French President Emmanuel Macron gave opening remarks on Thursday in Paris at an aid conference for Gaza, stressing that “all...

Turkey’s Media Regulator Votes to Order DW to Obtain License 

Turkey’s Media Regulator Votes to Order DW to Obtain License 

Turkey’s media regulator has voted to order the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle, or DW, to obtain a broadcast license...

UK Interior Minister Sparks Furor by Accusing Police of Favoring Pro-Palestinian Protesters

UK Interior Minister Sparks Furor by Accusing Police of Favoring Pro-Palestinian Protesters

Britain’s interior minister on Thursday accused the country’s largest police force of being more lenient toward pro-Palestinian demonstrators than other...

Spanish Politician Shot in Madrid

Spanish Politician Shot in Madrid

Spanish police say that veteran right-wing politician Alejandro Vidal-Quadras, has been taken to the hospital after being shot in the...

Ukraine Says Those Calling for Talks With Russia ‘Uninformed’ 

Ukraine Says Those Calling for Talks With Russia ‘Uninformed’ 

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba Thursday rejected any calls for talks with Russia amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Those...

Worker at South Korea Vegetable Packing Plant Crushed to Death by Industrial Robot

Worker at South Korea Vegetable Packing Plant Crushed to Death by Industrial Robot

An industrial robot grabbed and crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea, police said...

Stay or Go: Parents Face Dilemma in Ukraine’s Kherson

Stay or Go: Parents Face Dilemma in Ukraine’s Kherson

The sound of children’s footsteps echoed along a school hallway in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson as pupils gathered...

Few Expectations as France Seeks Tangible Results at Gaza Conference

Few Expectations as France Seeks Tangible Results at Gaza Conference

Some 80 countries and international organizations meet in Paris on Thursday to coordinate aid and assess how to help the...

Putin, Erdogan and Raisi Make Visits in Central Asia

Putin, Erdogan and Raisi Make Visits in Central Asia

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Kazakhstan on Thursday, while Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim...

Husband of Journalist Jailed in Russia Calls on US for Help

Husband of Journalist Jailed in Russia Calls on US for Help

The husband of Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist jailed in Russia on accusations that she failed to register as a foreign...

Transsexual People Can Be Baptized Catholic, Serve as Godparents, Vatican Says

Transsexual People Can Be Baptized Catholic, Serve as Godparents, Vatican Says

Transsexual people can be godparents at Roman Catholic baptisms, witnesses at religious weddings and receive baptism themselves, the Vatican’s doctrinal...

European Commission Opens Door for Membership Talks With Ukraine, Moldova

European Commission Opens Door for Membership Talks With Ukraine, Moldova

On Wednesday, the European Commission recommended opening European Union membership negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova. The news was welcome in...

French Citizen Held in Iran, Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

French Citizen Held in Iran, Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

France has denounced an action taken by an Iranian court that sentenced a French national to five years in prison....

Putin Calls for Russia-China Cooperation on High-Tech Weapons

Putin Calls for Russia-China Cooperation on High-Tech Weapons

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday encouraged a senior Chinese military leader to strengthen their nations’ military cooperation by collaborating...