In a referendum held Sunday, Chileans overwhelmingly voted to rewrite the country’s constitution (MercoPress) and hold a new constitutional convention.

The vote was the result of massive protests that began last year in response to a hike in metro fares and evolved into a broader call (NYT) for societal reform. The demand for constitutional change emerged as protesters argued that the document, drafted during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, led to entrenched inequality (BBC) by enshrining private-sector control over the economy. Voters chose to elect all 155 delegates of a constitutional convention, rather than have one where half the delegates would be members of Congress. Equal numbers of men and women (Guardian) will be chosen in April, and they will then have up to a year to draft a new constitution.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that Japan would achieve net-zero carbon emissions (Japan Times) by 2050, though some experts said the plan to do so lacked details. Japan is the world’s third-largest economy and the fifth-biggest emitter of carbon dioxide.

This CFR Backgrounder compares how countries are tackling decarbonization.

Australia/Qatar: Australian officials demanded answers from Qatar Airways (NYT) after women aboard a flight from Doha to Sydney were forced to disembark and subjected to invasive strip searches following the discovery of an abandoned newborn infant in the Doha airport.

India and the United States are expected to sign a military agreement to boost cooperation and counter China while U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper are in New Delhi this week, unnamed Indian officials told the Wall Street Journal.

Afghanistan: Dozens of people were killed and more than seventy others injured in an attack on an educational center (TOLO) in Kabul on Saturday. Most of the victims were teenagers and young people, officials said. The Taliban denied involvement in the attack.

Israel and Sudan agreed to normalize relations (Haaretz) in a U.S.-brokered deal on Friday, making Sudan the third Arab country to establish ties with Israel this year, after Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said delegations would soon meet to discuss cooperation on trade and agriculture. As part of the deal, the United States will remove Sudan from its list of countries that sponsor terrorism.

CFR’s Michelle Gavin explains what removal from the terrorism-sponsorship list means for Sudan.

President Alpha Conde won a controversial third term in Guinea’s presidential election with nearly 60 percent of votes, the country’s electoral commission announced Saturday. At least ten people have died in unrest since the October 18 election. On Sunday, Amnesty International said security forces had fired live ammunition at protesters (Al Jazeera).

Ethiopia: The government denounced “belligerent threats” (AP) to the country after U.S. President Donald J. Trump said during a call with Sudan’s prime minister that Egypt would “blow up” the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Ethiopia’s foreign minister summoned the U.S. ambassador, calling Trump’s comments an “incitement of war.” Egypt and Sudan have objected to the dam, fearing it will disrupt their water supplies.

This CFR Backgrounder looks at Ethiopia, East Africa’s emerging giant.

Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of violating a U.S.-brokered cease-fire (RFE/RL) in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh that took effect today. This cease-fire is the third attempt to pause hostilities that have lasted one month and killed at least one thousand people.

Belarus: Opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya called for a general strike (RFE/RL) to put pressure on President Alexander Lukashenko. Tikhanovskaya urged Belarusians to block roads, shut down workplaces, boycott government stores, and pull money from banks.

Leopoldo Lopez, a prominent Venezuelan opposition activist, fled the country (Miami Herald) and is traveling to Spain and then the United States, sources close to him said. Lopez heads opposition leader Juan Guaido’s political party.

Wilton Gregory, the archibishop of Washington, DC, will be made a cardinal (WaPo) next month, Pope Francis announced on Sunday, making Gregory the first Black American to hold the position. He will be one of thirteen new cardinals.

Fifty countries have now signed a treaty banning the use of nuclear weapons, allowing it to become international law (NYT). The world’s nuclear powers, including the United States, refused to sign the pact, so it does not bind them.