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”

Defiant Lavrov Says US Sanctions Won’t Stop Russian Pipelines

Defiant Lavrov Says US Sanctions Won’t Stop Russian Pipelines

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has struck a defiant tone, saying the Nord Stream 2 and Turk Stream gas pipeline...

Notre Dame Fire Wakes the World up to Dangers of Lead Dust

Notre Dame Fire Wakes the World up to Dangers of Lead Dust

It took a blaze that nearly destroyed Paris’ most famous cathedral to reveal a gap in global safety regulations for...

NATO Leaders Turn Attention to Rising China Challenge

NATO Leaders Turn Attention to Rising China Challenge

Many experts say the most remarkable news from the recently held NATO summit in London is that NATO, history’s most...

Croats Pick President in Tight Test for Ruling Conservatives

Croats Pick President in Tight Test for Ruling Conservatives

Voters in Croatia on Sunday cast ballots in a tight presidential election, with the ruling conservatives seeking to keep their...

Queen Elizabeth Mixes Puddings, and Sends Message of Continuity

Queen Elizabeth Mixes Puddings, and Sends Message of Continuity

At the end of a difficult year, Queen Elizabeth has posed for photographs with her son Prince Charles, grandson Prince...

West African Nations Rename Common Currency, Sever its Links to France

West African Nations Rename Common Currency, Sever its Links to France

Eight West African countries Saturday agreed to change the name of their common currency to Eco and severed the CFA...

Berlin Police Give all-Clear After Closing Christmas Market

Berlin Police Give all-Clear After Closing Christmas Market

Berlin police gave the all-clear on Saturday after earlier evacuating a Christmas market that was the scene of a fatal...

Macron Vows to Keep Fighting Extremism in West Africa

Macron Vows to Keep Fighting Extremism in West Africa

France’s President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to boost the fight against Islamic extremism in West Africa as French troops killed...

Pompeo Slams Russia, China for Opposing Syrian Aid Resolution

Pompeo Slams Russia, China for Opposing Syrian Aid Resolution

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denounced Russia and China on Saturday after the two countries vetoed a U.N. Security...

French President Says 33 Jihadists Killed in Central Mali 

French President Says 33 Jihadists Killed in Central Mali 

French forces killed 33 Islamic extremists in central Mali on Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron said.    He made the...

Russia, Ukraine Outline Terms for 5-Year Gas Transit Deal to End Dispute

Russia, Ukraine Outline Terms for 5-Year Gas Transit Deal to End Dispute

Russia and Ukraine announced terms of a new gas transit deal on Saturday, under which Moscow will supply Europe for...

US Official: US Concerned as Libyan Conflict Turns Bloodier With Russian Mercenaries

US Official: US Concerned as Libyan Conflict Turns Bloodier With Russian Mercenaries

The United States is “very concerned” about the intensification of the conflict in Libya, with a rising number of reported...

Relations Between West, Russia Likely to Remain Antagonistic Next Year

Relations Between West, Russia Likely to Remain Antagonistic Next Year

In his four-hour, stage-managed year-end news conference Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin went out of his way to back U.S....

UN: Poland’s New Judicial Law Undermines Independence of Judges

UN: Poland’s New Judicial Law Undermines Independence of Judges

The U.N. Human Rights Office warns that Poland’s new law, which makes it easier to fire judges, risks further undermining...

Facebook Says Group Used Computer-generated Faces to Push Pro-Trump Message

Facebook Says Group Used Computer-generated Faces to Push Pro-Trump Message

Facebook Inc has taken down a well-financed campaign that used dozens of artificially generated faces to spread pro-Trump and anti-Chinese...

West-Russian Relations Likely to Remain Antagonistic Next Year

West-Russian Relations Likely to Remain Antagonistic Next Year

In his four-hour, stage-managed year-end news conference Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin went out of his way to back U.S....

Trump Approves Russia-Europe Gas Pipeline Sanctions

Trump Approves Russia-Europe Gas Pipeline Sanctions

President Donald Trump on Friday signed off on US sanctions against companies building a Russian natural gas pipeline to Germany...

Notre Dame Cathedral to Miss First Christmas in Centuries

Notre Dame Cathedral to Miss First Christmas in Centuries

Notre Dame kept Christmas going even during two world wars — a beacon of hope amid the bloodshed.Yet an accidental...

US Agency, GM Discuss Deployment of Self-Driving Cars

US Agency, GM Discuss Deployment of Self-Driving Cars

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is holding talks with General Motors Co. on the automaker’s petition to deploy a limited number of...

UK Prosecutors to Charge US Diplomat’s Wife Over Fatal Car Crash   

UK Prosecutors to Charge US Diplomat’s Wife Over Fatal Car Crash   

British prosecutors said on Friday they had decided to charge the wife of a U.S. diplomat over a fatal car...

Britain’s Prince Philip Hospitalized in Precautionary Move

Britain’s Prince Philip Hospitalized in Precautionary Move

Britain’s Prince Philip, the 98-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth, was taken to a hospital Friday as a precaution for treatment of an...

Twitter Removes 5,929 Saudi Accounts it Deems State-Backed

Twitter Removes 5,929 Saudi Accounts it Deems State-Backed

Twitter says it has removed nearly 6,000 accounts it has deemed tied to a state-backed information operation in Saudi Arabia.Twitter...