MOSCOW—Political turmoil following a disputed election in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan continued over the weekend as parliament chose a prime minister who was recently freed from jail while security services detained the country’s ex-leader. The developments appear to strengthen the hand of President Sooronbai Jeenbekov in the short term, though he has said … Read more
ROME-—Italians voted to shrink the size of the national parliament, according to early voting results, in an expression of Europeans’ continuing frustration with their political class. Nearly 70% of voters approved a constitutional amendment that cuts the number of lawmakers by about one third, the early results of a referendum held on Sunday and Monday … Read more
WASHINGTON—A split among Senate Democrats threatens to derail a U.S.-brokered deal to help Sudan establish a stable civilian government and resolve terror victims’ claims against the former regime of Omar al-Bashir, which harbored al Qaeda in the 1990s. In its latest form, the deal would see Sudan’s new reformist government pay $335 million to compensate … Read more
A prominent Venezuelan opposition figure on Wednesday said he is supporting congressional elections in December that Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader backed by the U.S., has pledged to boycott. The decision by Henrique Capriles to support the elections is a major fissure in a movement that for 20 months united behind Mr. Guaidó in a … Read more