Germany and France agreed Tuesday on a strategy to create European industrial "champions" and to seek changes in EU competition rules that now prevent blockbuster mergers of homegrown groups. The push for a common industrial initiative came after the EU's veto of an Alstom-Siemens rail...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to save face Tuesday after a summit with four central European nations was cancelled over a Holocaust-linked dispute with Poland, instead holding meetings with the remaining three leaders. The dispute put a dent in Netanyahu's attempts to...

Estonia's banking watchdog FSA said Tuesday it has ordered Denmark's largest lender Danske Bank to close its local branch within eight months, following a money laundering scandal. Investigators in Copenhagen, Brussels, London and the United States are probing some 200 billion euros ($226...

For Hassan, 39, who was captured, it is her three missing children, and three years of imprisonment at the hands of the jihadist group. For Ibrahim, 42, who escaped, it is the mass grave that he returned to find on his ravaged land. “They burnt one house down, blew up the other, they...