Malaysian king chooses Muhyiddin Yassin over Mahathir to be prime minister

Malaysia’s king on Saturday appointed Malay nationalist leader Muhyiddin Yassin as the country’s new prime minister, dramatically upending expectations that the 94-year-old elder statesman Mahathir Mohamad would keep his job after cobbling together support at the eleventh hour following a fraught five days of leaderless turmoil and frantic horse-trading in the country.In a statement, the palace said Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah had conducted interviews with all MPs last week and found that…