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”

Envoy Insists Brexit Must Produce No ‘Hard Border’ With Irish Republic 

Envoy Insists Brexit Must Produce No ‘Hard Border’ With Irish Republic 

As the Oct. 31 Brexit deadline approaches, Ireland’s ambassador to the United States is expressing a degree of optimism that...

Russia, Ukraine Move Ahead With EU Talks to Avert Supply Cut

Russia, Ukraine Move Ahead With EU Talks to Avert Supply Cut

This story originated in VOA’s Ukraine’s Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection Oleksiy Orzhel attends a news conference at the...

French Experts Restore Three Sudanese Relics 

French Experts Restore Three Sudanese Relics 

A team of French diggers has restored three Sudanese artifacts, including a 3,500-year-old wall relief, and it handed them to...

Huawei Faces Public Test as it Unveils Sanction-Hit Phone

Huawei Faces Public Test as it Unveils Sanction-Hit Phone

Chinese tech giant Huawei launched its latest high-end smartphone in Munich on Thursday, the first of its mobile devices not...

Macron Says Yellow Vest Crisis ‘Very Good For Me’

Macron Says Yellow Vest Crisis ‘Very Good For Me’

President Emmanuel Macron has said he believes the yellow vest protests that rocked France since last year have been good...

Support for Independence Seen Waning in Spain’s Catalonia

Support for Independence Seen Waning in Spain’s Catalonia

When Spain’s national anthem blared from a hotel balcony during Catalonia’s National Day ceremonies last week, regional police cut electricity...

At 98, D-Day Vet Jumps Again, With Eyes on the Big 100

At 98, D-Day Vet Jumps Again, With Eyes on the Big 100

Jump by jump, 98-year-old D-Day veteran Tom Rice is nudging closer to his goal of leaping out of planes at...

Belgian Fighter Jet Crashes in France, Pilot Hits Power Line

Belgian Fighter Jet Crashes in France, Pilot Hits Power Line

A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed Thursday on a road in western France and one of its pilots is hanging...

California Police Employs Robocop to Patrol Parks

California Police Employs Robocop to Patrol Parks

The city of Huntington Park in the state of California has hired a new police office to patrol local parks....

US Expects Serbia-Kosovo Talks to Restart After October 6 Kosovo Election

US Expects Serbia-Kosovo Talks to Restart After October 6 Kosovo Election

New U.S. Special Envoy to the Western Balkans Matthew Palmer said Washington expects talks between Serbia and Kosovo to restart...

Asylum Requests Down in Developed Countries: OECD

Asylum Requests Down in Developed Countries: OECD

Developed countries received sharply fewer asylum applications last year, a report said Wednesday, as the world remains gripped in a...

Swedish Teen Climate Activist Urges US Lawmakers to ‘Follow the Science’

Swedish Teen Climate Activist Urges US Lawmakers to ‘Follow the Science’

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg appeared before a U.S. Congressional committee Wednesday, urging law makers to “listen to the...

Facebook Still Auto-Generating Islamic State, Al-Qaida Pages

Facebook Still Auto-Generating Islamic State, Al-Qaida Pages

In the face of criticism that Facebook is not doing enough to combat extremist messaging, the company likes to say...

Trump, Finland’s President to Meet at White House in October

Trump, Finland’s President to Meet at White House in October

President Donald Trump and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto will mark 100 years of diplomatic relations between their countries at the...

Russian Actors Protest One-by-One in Solidarity With Jailed Ustinov

Russian Actors Protest One-by-One in Solidarity With Jailed Ustinov

Russian actors have held individual protests in front of the presidential administration in Moscow against the imprisonment of Pavel Ustinov,...

Eastern Ukraine Braces for Bitter 6th Winter of Conflict

Eastern Ukraine Braces for Bitter 6th Winter of Conflict

The United Nations is urgently appealing for $52 million to provide life-saving assistance to thousands of the most vulnerable people...

Spain Leader Asks for Bigger Socialist Win to Break Deadlock

Spain Leader Asks for Bigger Socialist Win to Break Deadlock

Spain’s acting prime minister asked voters Wednesday for an even bigger victory for his Socialist party after his failure to...

Researchers: AI Surveillance is Expanding Worldwide

Researchers: AI Surveillance is Expanding Worldwide

A growing number of countries are following China’s lead in deploying artificial intelligence to track citizens, according to a research...

Noise and Pollution Free, Green ‘Flying Taxi’ Spreads Wings on Paris’ Seine

Noise and Pollution Free, Green ‘Flying Taxi’ Spreads Wings on Paris’ Seine

A Parisian startup enterprise looks to ease congestion in one of the world’s densest urban transportation networks.  Entrepreneurs created a...

EU’s Tusk Urges Bloc to Back Talks With Balkan Neighbors

EU’s Tusk Urges Bloc to Back Talks With Balkan Neighbors

The European Union’s outgoing president, Donald Tusk, on Tuesday urged the bloc’s members to back entry talks with North Macedonia...

Spain Rejects US Extradition Request for Ex-Venezuelan Spy Chief

Spain Rejects US Extradition Request for Ex-Venezuelan Spy Chief

Spain’s high court has rejected a U.S. extradition request for Venezuela’s ex-spy chief.Former major general Hugo Carvajal is wanted in...

Facebook to Name First Oversight Panel Members by Year-end

Facebook to Name First Oversight Panel Members by Year-end

Facebook said Tuesday that it expects to name the first members of a new quasi-independent oversight board by year-end.The oversight...