Chancellor to depart amid inquiry on graft

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Saturday that he plans to step down in an effort to defuse a government crisis triggered by prosecutors’ announcement that he is a target of a corruption investigation.

Kurz, 35, said he has proposed that Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg replace him. But Kurz will remain in front-line politics: He said he will become the head of his conservative Austrian People’s Party’s parliamentary group.