Bloomberg European leaders are declaring the continent’s financial crisis to be over, but now a political one is fermenting. A battle between European Union regulators and the Polish government over its plans to weaken the judiciary’s independence is splitting eastern and western Europe in a way that the euro region erupted along a north-south fault line. As Greece returned to …

Bloomberg The Kenyan government denied a claim by the main opposition group that it’s planning to use force to rig next month’s election and keep President Uhuru Kenyatta in office. The National Super Alliance said on Friday it had “concrete evidence” of an “audacious plan” to subvert the August 8 vote. The ruling Jubilee Party has “clearly recognized” it will …

Bloomberg Big Oil is starting to beat the crude-market slump as the industry rediscovers how to make money at lower prices. Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc are forecast to more than double second-quarter profit from a year earlier, far outstripping the 8 percent gain in benchmark Brent crude, according to analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Chevron Corp. …