ROME — A young Moroccan woman embroiled in a sex scandal with former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi took the witness stand on Friday, recounting wild parties in which an attractive politician once ... Read more
One of the men had once lived in the same Brooklyn building as the personal secretary of a senior Hamas member, the authorities said. Another was something of a father figure to the terrorist who fatally shot ... Read more
BERLIN — Angela Merkel is famous for slowly weighing every possible risk before making a decision. That is exactly what the chancellor is doing now as she ponders attending the all-German Champions League ... Read more
ROME — An appeals court in Milan upheld a conviction on Wednesday of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud, sentencing him to four years in prison and imposing a five-year ban on holding ... Read more
BERLIN — To say Uli Hoeness led a charmed life does not do him justice. He won soccer’s World Cup on his home soil as a player in 1974. The son of a butcher, he grew rich as the ... Read more
DUBLIN — Europe’s efforts to crack down on tax havens gained momentum on Saturday as finance ministers from nine countries agreed to share more bank information. Ministers from Belgium, the ... Read more
PARIS — Buffeted by a political scandal, a stagnant economy and angry public reaction to a report about secret offshore bank accounts, President François Hollande of France announced the creation ... Read more
PARIS — The firestorm touched off this week by a former budget minister’s admission to having secret foreign bank accounts — after months of public denials — widened Thursday as senior ... Read more
An enormous leak of confidential financial records has revealed the identities of thousands of wealthy depositors — including European officials and corporate executives, Asian dictators and their ... Read more
PARIS — President François Hollande, his standing already battered by economic woes and sliding polls, scrambled on Wednesday to try to restore confidence in his rule and his government as the ... Read more