Bloomberg Venezuela freed the former head of the government’s intelligence agency five years after he was arrested for allegedly instigating a rebellion against President Nicolas Maduro, according to people familiar with the matter. Miguel Rodriguez Torres, a former major general in the army who fell out of Maduro’s favor, was set free Saturday morning and left the country for ...

Bloomberg A retired general pledging unequivocal support for Ukraine is favored to defeat a billionaire former premier in the final round of the Czech presidential election next weekend, opinion polls showed. In the first round of voting last week, Petr Pavel, who once served as Nato’s highest-ranking military official, finished first by a razor-thin margin, ahead of former Prime Minister ...

  Bloomberg Intesa Sanpaolo SpA is cutting risk-weighted assets by as much as €20 billion ($21.6 billion) after the European Central Bank (ECB) faulted the lender’s calculations of how much risk it faces. The Italian bank, which comfortably exceeds its capital requirements, is carrying out the reduction via the sale of loans and other assets. It’s also looking at so-called ...