LJUBLJANA / Reuters Slovenia will hold an early general election on June 3, President Borut Pahor announced on Saturday, a month after centre-left Prime Minister Miro Cerar resigned over a legal obstacle to a government investment project. “On this day I dismiss the parliament and determine June 3 as the date of early parliamentary election,” Pahor told a news conference. ...

Bloomberg The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats may have shunned some of its more extreme members, but the party with neo-Nazi roots is still far from being welcomed by the establishment. While SD is poised to become a kingmaker in September’s election, potentially winning close to 20 percent, interviews with the center-right opposition leaders revealed the group will still need to make ...

Bloomberg Pakistan’s Supreme Court issued a lifetime ban on politicians holding office after legal disqualification — a ruling that will bar former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from ever holding an elected position following a corruption probe against the ex-premier last year. The top court’s 5-member panel made the judgment on Friday after its July decision that ousted Sharif didn’t disclose ...