Bloomberg Iraq’s Mohammed Tawfik Allawi declined to form a cabinet and stepped down as designated prime minister, ending weeks of squabbling and returning the country to a political vacuum. In a televised address on Monday in Baghdad, Allawi said he was quitting because of what he called “pressures from political parties seeking their own interests.” Allawi, a former communications minister, ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s appointment of Virginia’s former attorney general as head of the immigration service violated federal law, a federal judge concluded. The ruling voids controversial policy changes that made it more difficult to get asylum in the US. Ken Cuccinelli’s appointment in 2019 as acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a unit within the Department ...

Bloomberg The Democratic Republic of Congo’s president called for a rapid investigation into the sudden death of the country’s head of military intelligence shortly after his suspension from the army. General Delphin Kahimbi died last week in Kinshasa, the capital, President Felix Tshisekedi told his council of ministers later that day, according to minutes of the meeting on the PM ...