Banks saw their third-quarter net profits jump 14 to 39 percent, they reported this week, as borrowing costs for mortgage and loan holders remained high, which helped fuel the lenders’ net ...

The mayor of Amsterdam has banned pro-Palestine protests outside the Johan Cruyff Stadium ahead of Thursday night’s Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer game. Mayor Femke Halsema, alongside the police ...

A Jewish classical pianist became the first political prisoner in modern Russia to die in a hunger strike at the end of July. Pavel Kushnir, 39, was arrested by Russian security services in May ...