Bloomberg Algeria’s former ruling party won the most seats in parliamentary elections as all-time low turnout showed deep skepticism over promises of a “new Algeria” after two years of unrest in the Opec member. Participation was about 23% in the vote, which delivered 105 of 407 parliamentary seats to the National Liberation Front (FLN) after protesters and more than a ...

Bloomberg Malaysia’s king has urged parliament to reconvene as soon as possible amid growing public anger over the government’s handling of the pandemic that has left democracy suspended all year. The statement from the national palace on Wednesday followed a meeting of the country’s royal leaders chaired by King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad and comes as daily Covid-19 infections averaged ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the country’s food situation is “getting tense” due to typhoons last year that wiped out crops, comments that underscored farm-sector shortfalls made worse by his decision to close borders to prevent Covid. Kim told a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of his ruling Workers’ Party of Korea “the agricultural sector failed to ...