Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Thursday he would request approval from a planning committee for the building of 2,500 new homes in 30 occupied West Bank settlements. “The 2,500 new units we’ll approve in the planning committee next week are for immediate construction in 2018,” Lieberman said in a ...
The Lebanese President General Michel Aoun Thursday tasked caretaker PM Saad Hariri with forming the new government after holding the binding parliamentary consultation at Baabda palace which granted the latter 111 votes (out of 128). Following the consultations, President Aoun met with House Speaker Nabih Berri and summoned Hariri who, ...