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”

France, Greece To push for EU Solidarity on Migrant Crisis

France, Greece To push for EU Solidarity on Migrant Crisis

French President Emmanuel Macron and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis agreed to push for more solidarity in the European Union...

New Standoff Expected With Italy Over Vessel With Hundreds of Migrants

New Standoff Expected With Italy Over Vessel With Hundreds of Migrants

In what risks becoming the latest migrant standoff with Italy, the Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking, carrying 356 migrants, including more than...

Gender-Based Violence to be Focus of Arms Trade Conference

Gender-Based Violence to be Focus of Arms Trade Conference

Efforts to regulate the international export of weapons to lessen gender-based violence will be a focus next week of the...

Kosovo Lawmakers Dissolve Parliament, Pave Way for Election

Kosovo Lawmakers Dissolve Parliament, Pave Way for Election

Kosovo lawmakers voted to dissolve parliament Friday, paving the way for a parliamentary election after Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj resigned...

Political Pressures Block Spanish Humanitarian Ship

Political Pressures Block Spanish Humanitarian Ship

A Spanish navy frigate sailed from Cadiz Wednesday to escort the humanitarian vessel Open Arms back from Italy with a...

Greenland Controversy Continues as Trump Cancels Copenhagen Trip, Calls Danish PM ‘Nasty’

Greenland Controversy Continues as Trump Cancels Copenhagen Trip, Calls Danish PM ‘Nasty’

The controversy over U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly postponing his trip to Copenhagen continues, as he criticized Prime Minister Mette...

Greenland Controversy Continues as Trump Cancels Copenhagen Trip, Calls Danish PM ‘Nasty’

Greenland Controversy Continues as Trump Cancels Copenhagen Trip, Calls Danish PM ‘Nasty’

The controversy over U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly postponing his trip to Copenhagen continues, as he criticized Prime Minister Mette...

Putin: US Missile Test Raises New Threats to Russia

Putin: US Missile Test Raises New Threats to Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that the test of a new U.S. missile banned under a now-defunct arms treaty...

Trump Says He Wants Russia Back at G-7 Summits  

Trump Says He Wants Russia Back at G-7 Summits  

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants Russia back at the Group of Seven summits of the world’s leading...

Iceland’s Leader Won’t Be Around to Welcome Pence

Iceland’s Leader Won’t Be Around to Welcome Pence

Iceland’s leader has announced that she will skip U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to her Nordic nation, opting instead...

British PM Set For G7 Debut, as Fears Grow Over Brexit Chaos

British PM Set For G7 Debut, as Fears Grow Over Brexit Chaos

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will make his debut on the world stage Saturday at the G7 Summit in France...

Concerns Growing that China’s Influence Operations Getting Bolder

Concerns Growing that China’s Influence Operations Getting Bolder

Nike Ching contributed to this report, which includes information from Reuters.Revelations that China has been using social media accounts to...

Danish PM Regrets Trump’s Canceled Visit After She Rejected Greenland Sale

Danish PM Regrets Trump’s Canceled Visit After She Rejected Greenland Sale

Updated Aug. 21, 2019, 12:10p.m.Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Wednesday she regretted and was surprised that U.S. President Donald...

Italy’s Head of State Opens Formal Consultations with Political Parties

Italy’s Head of State Opens Formal Consultations with Political Parties

Italy’s president begins consultations on Wednesday on seeing if there is any way another working coalition government can be formed...

A Biometric ID: A Scan of the Iris or Fingerprint, to get Food, Medical Supplies

A Biometric ID: A Scan of the Iris or Fingerprint, to get Food, Medical Supplies

To get medical supplies or food, people in some places around the world are showing not a government ID but...

Russian Parliament Accuses US of Political Interference

Russian Parliament Accuses US of Political Interference

Russian politicians are accusing the United States of trying to interfere in Moscow’s upcoming elections by helping to organize mass...

Conservationists Push at CITES Conference to Ban Trophy Hunting

Conservationists Push at CITES Conference to Ban Trophy Hunting

A group of activists is trying to persuade an international conservation conference to ban trophy hunting, which outrages some animal...

Trump Delays Denmark PM Talks Over Lack of Interest in Greenland Sale

Trump Delays Denmark PM Talks Over Lack of Interest in Greenland Sale

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he is postponing a planned meeting with Denmark’s prime minister due to her lack...

Dropping Winds Help Crews Battle Canary Islands Wildfire

Dropping Winds Help Crews Battle Canary Islands Wildfire

Firefighters battling Spain’s largest wildfire of the year got a break Tuesday as wind gusts abated. More than 12,000 hectares have...

Italy Seizes Migrant Ship Stranded at Sea

Italy Seizes Migrant Ship Stranded at Sea

More than 80 migrants on board a Spanish charity rescue ship exploded with joy at the news that Italy is...

Russia to Nuclear Test Ban Monitor: Test Accident Not Your Business

Russia to Nuclear Test Ban Monitor: Test Accident Not Your Business

Russia told an agency that verifies a ban on nuclear tests that a military test accident in the country’s north...

Twitter, Facebook Take Down Chinese Fake News Accounts

Twitter, Facebook Take Down Chinese Fake News Accounts

After Hong Kong saw one of its biggest protests yet over the weekend, a social media war has broken out...