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”

Putin Signs Amendments Allowing Large Fines for ‘Foreign Agents’ Law Violations

Putin Signs Amendments Allowing Large Fines for ‘Foreign Agents’ Law Violations

Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 16 signed amendments to the Administrative Violations Code that allow hefty fines for violating...

France, UK say They Look Beyond Brexit in Mali Cooperation

France, UK say They Look Beyond Brexit in Mali Cooperation

Sharing the cockpit of a helicopter on sizzling tarmac, French and British air force chiefs vowed to pursue the joint...

Turkey Deploys Surveillance Drone in Northern Cyprus

Turkey Deploys Surveillance Drone in Northern Cyprus

Turkey has dispatched a surveillance and reconnaissance drone to the breakaway north of ethnically divided island nation of Cyprus amid...

‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Mladic Appeal Date Set for March

‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Mladic Appeal Date Set for March

A U.N. tribunal will hear arguments in March in the appeal of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, convicted...

Spokesman: British PM to Present Brexit Bill to MPs on Friday

Spokesman: British PM to Present Brexit Bill to MPs on Friday

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government intends to present a bill to parliament on Friday to enable Britain to leave the...

UN Forum to Seek Solutions for World’s Displaced

UN Forum to Seek Solutions for World’s Displaced

The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, is holding a first-ever forum in an effort to drum up international support for...

Turkey’s Erdogan Threatens to Close 2 US Military Bases

Turkey’s Erdogan Threatens to Close 2 US Military Bases

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday threatened to close two strategic military bases used by the United States in...

China Pulls Football Game After Player’s Pro-Muslim Comments

China Pulls Football Game After Player’s Pro-Muslim Comments

Chinese state television pulled the scheduled live broadcast of a football (soccer) game following one of the players’ comments online...

US Democrats Squabble Over Lessons of UK Election

US Democrats Squabble Over Lessons of UK Election

Hours before the official result was complete for Britain’s general election, U.S. Democrats on the other side of the Atlantic...

Global Refugee Forum Seeks Greater International Support for Forcibly Displaced

Global Refugee Forum Seeks Greater International Support for Forcibly Displaced

More than 2,000 Government, U.N., and business leaders as well as representatives from civil society and humanitarian agencies are gathering...

Greta Thunberg, German Railway Company in Tweetstorm

Greta Thunberg, German Railway Company in Tweetstorm

Climate activist Greta Thunberg and Germany’s national railway company created a tweetstorm Sunday after she posted a photo of herself...

UK Opposition Chief Corbyn ‘Sorry’ for Election Wipeout

UK Opposition Chief Corbyn ‘Sorry’ for Election Wipeout

Britain’s main opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn apologized Sunday for waging a disastrous campaign that handed Prime Minister Boris Johnson a...

Madrid Climate Talks End in Acrimony, Disappointment

Madrid Climate Talks End in Acrimony, Disappointment

The United Nations’ longest climate talks ever ended in Madrid Sunday with countries agreeing to increase carbon cutting commitments next...

This Little Piggy Went to Court: German Piglets ‘Sue Over Castration’

This Little Piggy Went to Court: German Piglets ‘Sue Over Castration’

Little piggies go to market, but in Germany they also go to court.In a legal first, animal rights activists have...

Albania Seeks Arrests for Guake Deaths in Collapsed Buildings

Albania Seeks Arrests for Guake Deaths in Collapsed Buildings

Albanian prosecutors have issued a series of arrest warrants on charges including murder and abuse of office over the deaths...

Queen to Set Out UK PM Johnson’s Agenda Thursday

Queen to Set Out UK PM Johnson’s Agenda Thursday

Queen Elizabeth on Thursday will set out Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s legislative agenda following his election victory, including a pledge...

Frustrated Climate Activists Dump Manure Outside Madrid Summit

Frustrated Climate Activists Dump Manure Outside Madrid Summit

Green activists dumped horse manure and staged a mock hanging outside the venue of a U.N. climate summit in Madrid on...

Johnson’s Win May Deliver Brexit But Could Risk UK’s Breakup

Johnson’s Win May Deliver Brexit But Could Risk UK’s Breakup

Leaving the European Union is not the only split British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has to worry about.Johnson’s commanding election...

‘Let The Healing Begin,’ British Prime Minister Says After Election

‘Let The Healing Begin,’ British Prime Minister Says After Election

Britain “deserves a break from wrangling, a break from politics and a permanent break from talking about Brexit,” British Prime...

Serbian Opposition Activists Block State TV-Radio Building Over Media Freedom Concerns

Serbian Opposition Activists Block State TV-Radio Building Over Media Freedom Concerns

Serbian opposition activists have blockaded the entrance of the building hosting the state Radio and Television service (RTS) in Belgrade...

Britain Takes Decisive Electoral Turn

Britain Takes Decisive Electoral Turn

Britons woke Friday to an utterly transformed political landscape following an electoral earthquake that has ripped up modern British politics,...

Johnson’s Landslide Victory Sets Britain On Course for January Brexit

Johnson’s Landslide Victory Sets Britain On Course for January Brexit

Britain looks certain to leave the European Union by the end of January after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson secured...