Armenians re-elect anti-Russian leader, China’s Xi flies to North Korea, Rebel groups exacerbate Ebola crisis, Trump to attend Knicks game (opens in new tab)

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan pledged to “continue the course of rapprochement with the West” after his ruling Civil Contract party won comfortably in yesterday’s parliamentary elections. Early results show the incumbent party received 49.8% of the vote, while the Russian-aligned Strong Armenia Alliance finished in a distant second, with 23.8%. Once part of the Soviet Union, Armenia has increasingly shifted away from Moscow recently toward the US and Europe. Just this year, Yerevan signed a ...