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”

Italy’s Salvini Tells Ship with 107 Migrants to Go to Spain

Italy’s Salvini Tells Ship with 107 Migrants to Go to Spain

Seeking to end a humanitarian crisis, Spain says a Spanish rescue boat with 107 migrants in the southern Mediterranean can...

Intelligent Threat-Sensing Building on Horizon

Intelligent Threat-Sensing Building on Horizon

As back to back mass shootings in the U.S. prompt more difficult debates on gun laws, researchers at University of...

Times, Citing Official Documents: UK Faces Food, Fuel and Drugs Shortages in No-Deal Brexit

Times, Citing Official Documents: UK Faces Food, Fuel and Drugs Shortages in No-Deal Brexit

Britain will face shortages of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal, jamming...

UK Parliament Can’t Stop Brexit, Johnson to Tell Macron, Merkel

UK Parliament Can’t Stop Brexit, Johnson to Tell Macron, Merkel

LONDON – Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel that his nation’s Parliament cannot...

Wildfire Prompts Evacuations in Canary Islands 

Wildfire Prompts Evacuations in Canary Islands 

TEJEDA, SPAIN – A wildfire in the Canary Islands led to the evacuation of a small town in Gran Canaria island on Saturday,...

Iranian Tanker to Leave Gibraltar Soon Despite US Pressure

Iranian Tanker to Leave Gibraltar Soon Despite US Pressure

The shipping agent for an Iranian supertanker caught in a diplomatic standoff says the vessel is ready to depart Gibraltar...

Italy’s Salvini Agrees to Disembark Minors on Migrant Ship

Italy’s Salvini Agrees to Disembark Minors on Migrant Ship

Italy’s hard-line interior minister appeared to buckle under pressure Saturday to ease the political standoff over a migrant rescue ship...

Rally, Pickets Call for Fair Moscow Elections

Rally, Pickets Call for Fair Moscow Elections

About 4,000 people have held a rally in Moscow to demand fairness in upcoming city council elections, and solo pickets...

US Says It Has Warrant to Seize Iranian Oil Tanker

US Says It Has Warrant to Seize Iranian Oil Tanker

Updated at 9:36 p.m. Aug. 16.VOA Persian’s Katherine Ahn contributed to this report.The U.S. government said Friday that it had...

In Uganda’s Capital, Huawei Adds Cameras Capable of Facial Recognition

In Uganda’s Capital, Huawei Adds Cameras Capable of Facial Recognition

Lawmakers in the United States have long been wary of Chinese telecom giant Huawei. They say the corporation is unlike...

Iranian Oil Tanker Remains Off Gibraltar Despite Court Ruling

Iranian Oil Tanker Remains Off Gibraltar Despite Court Ruling

VOA Persian’s Katherine Ahn contributed to this report.An Iranian supertanker caught in a diplomatic standoff off the coast of the...

30th Anniversary of Berlin Wall’s Tumble Prompts Democracy Debate

30th Anniversary of Berlin Wall’s Tumble Prompts Democracy Debate

Thirty years ago, the Iron Curtain dividing Europe lifted.  Next week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel travels to Hungary to commemorate...

Trump Not First US President Who Wants Greenland

Trump Not First US President Who Wants Greenland

The government of Greenland is dismissing the idea that the island is for sale, following media reports that U.S. President...

Google Employees Call for Pledge Not to Work With ICE

Google Employees Call for Pledge Not to Work With ICE

Hundreds of Google employees are calling on the company to pledge it won’t work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection...

17 Chinese, Ukrainian Seamen Kidnapped off Cameroon Coast

17 Chinese, Ukrainian Seamen Kidnapped off Cameroon Coast

Nine Chinese and eight Ukrainian seamen were abducted Thursday when two merchant vessels came under attack in Cameroonian waters in...

Iranian Oil Tanker Freed by Gibraltar Despite US Appeal

Iranian Oil Tanker Freed by Gibraltar Despite US Appeal

Updated Aug. 15, 8:20 p.m. VOA Persian’s Katherine Ahn contributed to this report.The British overseas territory of Gibraltar turned back U.S....

US Diplomat: Dodik Rhetoric Undermining Bosnian Government Deal

US Diplomat: Dodik Rhetoric Undermining Bosnian Government Deal

This story originated in VOA’s Bosnian Service. WASHINGTON — U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Palmer says the U.S....

Exclusive: North Macedonia President Says ‘Vital Institutions’ Failing

Exclusive: North Macedonia President Says ‘Vital Institutions’ Failing

This story originated in FILE – Public prosecutor Katica Janeva, right, takes an oath in Skopje, Macedonia, Sept. 16, 2015.EU...

Iranian Oil Tanker Allowed to Leave Gibraltar Despite US Appeal

Iranian Oil Tanker Allowed to Leave Gibraltar Despite US Appeal

Gibraltar media is reporting that the government has decided to release the Grace 1 Iranian supertanker after receiving formal written...

France Honors Allied Veterans of World War II Landings

France Honors Allied Veterans of World War II Landings

French President Emmanuel Macron is celebrating U.S. and African veterans as well as French resistance fighters who took part in...

UK Labour’s Plan to Stop No-Deal Brexit Gets Mixed Reception

UK Labour’s Plan to Stop No-Deal Brexit Gets Mixed Reception

Britain’s fractious opposition politicians are giving a mixed reception to a plan by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to block...

Emotional Paris Ceremony Near Notre Dame for Assumption Day

Emotional Paris Ceremony Near Notre Dame for Assumption Day

Catholic pilgrims have held an emotional procession past fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral, singing and parading with a statue of the...