Bloomberg The US Supreme Court cleared the way for a new congressional voting map in North Carolina this year, rejecting a Republican bid to reinstate district lines thrown out by a lower court. The order was one of the high court’s first since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. It came without published dissent. A three-judge panel said Feb. 5 ...

Bloomberg Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe warned that rivals within his ruling party must “shut up” and stop sowing internal divisions or face punishment. “Those who are saying we belong to this faction or that faction, I say to them shut up. You belong to Zimbabwe first and foremost whatever you might say,” Mugabe said in a televised national address, flanked ...

Seoul / AP Sounds of explosions caused South Korean residents of a front-line island to prepare to evacuate early Saturday, but it was later determined the noise came from a North Korean artillery drill across the rivals’ disputed maritime border, officials said. The false alarm was indicative of the high anxiety between the Koreas in the wake of the North’s ...