Iraqi parliament has elected a veteran Kurdish politician as the country’s new president, a step toward forming a new government, Iraqi state TV said. Barham Salih, of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, won 220 votes out of the 273 lawmakers who attended Tuesday’s session. He was among 20 candidates for ...
Registration of candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Lebanon closed at midnight on Tuesday, with nearly 1000 running in the vote. The number of candidates registered with the Interior Ministry for the polls, slated for May 6, was the highest in the history of Lebanon’s parliamentary elections. Among the ...
