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”

Russia and China Deny Violating South Korean Airspace

Russia and China Deny Violating South Korean Airspace

Both Russia and China are denying their military aircraft violated South Korea’s territorial airspace during a joint air patrol Tuesday.The...

Big Tech Faces Broad US Justice Department Antitrust Probe

Big Tech Faces Broad US Justice Department Antitrust Probe

The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it was opening a broad investigation of major digital technology firms into whether...

Navalny Says He Was Detained By Russian Police As He Was Jogging

Navalny Says He Was Detained By Russian Police As He Was Jogging

Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny says he was detained by police in Moscow shortly after he left his apartment for...

UN Nuclear Watchdog to Start Search for New Chief

UN Nuclear Watchdog to Start Search for New Chief

The UN’s nuclear watchdog has announced it will meet Thursday to start the hunt for a new director general to...

Virtual Reality Art Show Transports Visitors Into Alternate Realities

Virtual Reality Art Show Transports Visitors Into Alternate Realities

Virtual reality, or VR, is not just a medium for software engineers who can code. Artists and filmmakers are exploring...

France Stresses Need for Iran to Respect Nuclear Accord

France Stresses Need for Iran to Respect Nuclear Accord

French authorities in a meeting Tuesday with an Iranian envoy stressed the need for Tehran to quickly respect the 2015...

Spain’s Sanchez Loses First Bid to Be Confirmed as PM, Eyes Thursday Vote

Spain’s Sanchez Loses First Bid to Be Confirmed as PM, Eyes Thursday Vote

Spain’s Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez failed on Tuesday in a first attempt to get parliament’s backing to form a government,...

Kosovo Former PM Set to Be Grilled by War Crimes Court

Kosovo Former PM Set to Be Grilled by War Crimes Court

Kosovo’s outgoing prime minister and wartime guerrilla commander Ramush Haradinaj, left Tuesday for the Hague to be interrogated by a...

Slain Russian LGBT Activist Reportedly Had Been Threatened

Slain Russian LGBT Activist Reportedly Had Been Threatened

Russian activists confirmed Tuesday that a woman found dead of stab wounds in Saint Petersburg earlier this week was a...

Ross: US Will Deal With Huawei Waiver Applications Within Weeks

Ross: US Will Deal With Huawei Waiver Applications Within Weeks

The Trump administration plans to handle applications from tech companies seeking waivers over Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s blacklisting within the...

Russian Boxer Maxim Dadashev Dies After Fight

Russian Boxer Maxim Dadashev Dies After Fight

Russian boxer Maxim Dadashev has died from injuries sustained in a fight in Maryland, the Russian boxing federation announced Tuesday. “Maxim...

US Attorney General Says Encryption Creates Security Risk

US Attorney General Says Encryption Creates Security Risk

U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that increased encryption of data on phones and computers and encrypted messaging apps...

Boris Johnson: Britain’s ‘Do or Die’ Prime Minister

Boris Johnson: Britain’s ‘Do or Die’ Prime Minister

Boris Johnson was announced Tuesday as the winner of a weeks-long Conservative leadership race to replace Theresa May as party...

Pope Gives West Virginia Diocese New Leader After Scandal

Pope Gives West Virginia Diocese New Leader After Scandal

Pope Francis named Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Mark Brennan to lead West Virginia’s Catholics on Tuesday following a scandal over the...

Facebook-Style App Launches in Vietnam Amid Tightening Internet Rules

Facebook-Style App Launches in Vietnam Amid Tightening Internet Rules

A Facebook-style social network was launched in Vietnam on Tuesday, Gapo, a mobile app that lets users create personal profiles...

Boris Johnson to Be Britain’s Next Prime Minister

Boris Johnson to Be Britain’s Next Prime Minister

Britain’s Conservative Party announced Tuesday that Boris Johnson has won the election to be its new leader and become the...

Moroccan Lawmakers Vote to Bolster French in Education System

Moroccan Lawmakers Vote to Bolster French in Education System

Moroccan lawmakers passed a draft law on Monday evening that would pave the way for strengthening the place of French...

Johnson Expected to Become Next British Prime Minister

Johnson Expected to Become Next British Prime Minister

Britain’s Conservative Party is expected to announce Tuesday that Boris Johnson has won the election to be its new leader...

South Korea Says Russian Military Airplane Violated Its Airspace

South Korea Says Russian Military Airplane Violated Its Airspace

South Korea says it fired warning shots at a Russian military aircraft after the plane breached South Korea’s airspace.South Korea’s...

French Submarine Found 50 Years After Disappearance

French Submarine Found 50 Years After Disappearance

The wreckage of a French submarine that disappeared more than 50 years ago has been found almost 45 kilometers from...

Newly-Elected Greek Government Wins Confidence Vote on Economic Policy

Newly-Elected Greek Government Wins Confidence Vote on Economic Policy

Greece’s newly-elected conservative government won a confidence vote on Monday on its economic policy, which includes tax cuts and measures...

Villagers Angry as Portugal Wildfire Still Rages

Villagers Angry as Portugal Wildfire Still Rages

Updated at 7:30pm EDT.After more than 50 hours, firefighters were still battling a wildfire in central Portugal late on Monday,...