• In Pakistan, the government struck a deal with leaders of an Islamist protest movement to end weeks of paralyzing protests in the capital that became the focus of violent clashes over the weekend.

The country’s embattled law minister will step down to satisfy the protesters’ accusations that his rewording of an oath of office constituted blasphemy. Many Pakistanis saw the agreement as yet another government capitulation to extremists.

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• Australia’s Parliament was supposed to be in session this week, focused on same-sex marriage legislation. Instead, the government of has been paralyzed by the number of parliamentarians who’ve had to resign over dual citizenship, including the deputy prime minister.

Representatives now have until Dec. 5 to turn in documentation to prove their citizenship status.

Many Australians have responded to the political turmoil with anger and loss of faith in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. We asked legal scholars how this mess might have been avoided, and how it might be fixed.

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