Macedonian President Shuts Down Wiretapping Probe

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov ordered a halt Tuesday to all criminal inquiries into allegations of a vast government wiretap operation, prompting the opposition to demand his resignation for a move it said amounted to a "coup d'etat." Macedonia, a poor Balkan country of 2 million people on the front line of Europe's refugee crisis, has been in turmoil since the opposition accused then-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his counterintelligence chief in February last...

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