Lebanese President Michel Aoun held on Wednesday the first round of the binding parliamentary consultations in order to designate a prime minister as most of the blocs and MPs nominated ex-PM Saad Hariri. President Aoun started the consultations by meeting with the caretaker Prime Minister Tammam Salam before receiving former ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday called Turkey’s latest arrests of opposition newspaper journalists “highly alarming” and said they would impact Ankara’s EU membership negotiations. “For me and the entire government, it is highly alarming that freedom of the press and speech are being further restricted,” she said after Turkey ...