Ecuador will bring back presidential term limits — Ecuadoreans voted Sunday to overturn a 2015 constitutional amendment that eliminated presidential term limits, a result seen as strengthening President Lenín Moreno’s power while dealing a potentially fatal political blow to former President Rafael Correa. The vote nullifies an amendment put in place after intense prodding by Correa, who was president at the time. Moreno, a former vice president who was once an ally of Correa’s, has become a staunch opponent since assuming office in May. “With this vote, we will be able to work on our fight against corruption,” Moreno said Sunday.

Some fear Kenya slips away from democracy — Television stations in Kenya are shuttered, and the government has defied a court order to return them to the air. Opposition politicians are under arrest, and journalists have been threatened with jail. The government has designated some opponents “an organized criminal group.” The events in Kenya are a stunning about-face in a country praised mere months ago as a shining example of democracy. But now many Kenyans fear their country is sliding away from democracy. “Kenya hasn’t seen anything like this before — this is unheard of,” said Ahmednasir Abdullahi, who represented President Uhuru Kenyatta before the Supreme Court last years.

Lawmakers: Memo doesn’t clear Trump — President Donald Trump was wrong to assert that a GOP-produced classified memo on FBI surveillance powers cleared him in the Russia investigation, Democratic and Republican lawmakers said Sunday. They expressed hope that special counsel Robert Mueller’s work would continue without interference. Democrats could seek a vote on publicly releasing their rebuttal memo when the GOP-led House Intelligence Committee meets late Monday afternoon. The committee rejected that move last week, with one Republican member saying revisions were needed so the memo would not endanger national security. The Senate’s Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, urged Trump to back the public release and said that refusing to do so would show the president’s intent to undermine the Russia investigation. The committee’s top Democrat, California Rep. Adam Schiff, branded the GOP memo “a political hit job.” He questioned whether the chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., had coordinated with the White House in drafting the document seized on by the president to vent his grievances against the nation’s premier law enforcement agencies. “The goal here is to undermine the FBI, discredit the FBI, discredit the Mueller investigation, do the president’s bidding,” Schiff said. “I think it’s very possible his staff worked with the White House.” Nunes was asked during a Jan. 29 committee meeting whether he had coordinated the memo with the White House. “As far as I know, no,” he responded, then refused to answer when asked whether his staff members had communicated with the White House. He had previously apologized for sharing with the White House secret intelligence intercepts related to an investigation of Russian election interference before talking to committee members.

Half of Iranians say ‘no’ to compulsory veils —The office of Iran’s president Sunday charged into one of the most contentious debates over the Islamic Republic’s character, releasing a 3-year-old report showing that nearly half of Iranians wanted an end to the requirement that women cover their heads in public. The report’s release comes as dozens of women in recent weeks have protested against being forced to wear the veil. The decision to release the report appears to pit President Hassan Rouhani directly against Iran’s hard-line judiciary. Publishing the 2014 report now suggests the president saw this as a moment to challenge the hard-liners.

Greeks protest ‘Macedonia’ naming rights — More than 100,000 people gathered in the Greek capital Sunday in the biggest demonstration in decades against the inclusion of the word “Macedonia” in the name of a neighboring former Yugoslav republic, saying it implies a territorial claim on a northern Greek region. Greece and the self-described Republic of Macedonia began U.N.-mediated talks last month to try to settle the 25-year name dispute. Many Greeks argue that its neighbor’s use of “Macedonia” suggests an encroachment on the Greek region of that name. The negotiations appear to have stirred patriotic sentiment, as well as stoking tensions, on both sides of the conflict.

High-ranking North Korean official will visit the South — North Korea plans to send a high-level government delegation to South Korea to attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics this week, South Korean officials said Sunday. The 22-member delegation will be led by Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of North Korean Parliament, the South Korean government announced. The group’s three-day visit will start Friday, when the opening ceremony will be held in the South Korean town of Pyeongchang. Kim is expected to meet President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, whose government has been hoping for a high-level delegation from Pyongyang.

At least 7 Turkish soldiers killed — Turkey’s military suffered its worst day yet in the two-week offensive in Afrin, Syria, when at least seven soldiers were killed and a tank was destroyed in the fighting, official Turkish news outlets reported Sunday. But the losses may be higher. Mustafa Bali, a spokesman for the Kurdish-led militia defending the city, said its fighters had killed eight Turkish soldiers Saturday. Two tanks were destroyed, he said. An independent monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said two tanks had been destroyed and 19 Turkish soldiers and allied Syrian militiamen had been killed Saturday.

Yellen disappointed not to get a second term — Janet Yellen said she was disappointed President Donald Trump didn’t offer her a second term as Federal Reserve chair but supports her central bank successor, Jerome Powell, who takes over Monday. Powell, a Fed board member since 2012, is “thoughtful, balanced, dedicated to public service. I’ve found him to be a very thoughtful policymaker,” Yellen said in an interview with CBS’ “Sunday Morning.” She also said the stock market — the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 25,520 Friday after a 665-point drop — was “high,” and that the financial system was in stronger shape to handle a sharp sell-off than it was during the 2008 financial crisis. She cited changes put in place since that time; Trump has been critical of that effort. “The financial system is much better capitalized. The banking system is more resilient,” Yellen said. “Our overall judgment is that, if there were to be a decline in asset valuations, it would not damage unduly the core of our financial system.” Yellen, appointed by President Barack Obama, was the first woman to lead the Fed. Her four-year term ended Friday. She is joining the Brookings Institution think tank.