Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati signed Friday the decree to form the new government, bringing to an end the 13 months-long deadlock that had hampered the formation of a cabinet.

Any minister or senior official found guilty of corruption could be relieved of their job.

Qays Zu’bi has been re-elected the president for two-year term.

The Egyptian president also said the country’s economy was better equipped to meet the aspirations of the Egyptian people.

The pandemic has hit the worst in the Middle East and it grapples with a fifth and the strongest yet wave of infections amid crippling economic sanctions. The country recorded its highest single day death toll on Aug. 24, with 709 fatalities registered by the Health Ministry in 24 hours.

Israeli Prime Minister is meeting with the US President at the White House

The US president had ordered the assessment to find out whether the virus jumped to humans via animals or escaped a research facility in Wuhan.

Lebanon has been struggling with fuel shortages for a couple of months, which has led to protracted power outages.

Jon Finer, the deputy national security advisor, and the top US diplomat for the Middle East, Joey Hood, traveled to Tunis and met both Saied and civil society leaders

As the fuel crisis worsens in Lebanon, the country's leadership appears to be at odds over how to end the crisis that has kept the whole country on the edge for most of the summer.

In a country suffering from one of the worst economic crises in the world, this could effectively raise prices for fuel, amid its shortage.

Maher Zid and Mohamed Affes of Al-Karama have been placed in provisional detention in connection with a military investigation.

He spoke in a rare interview, given to the New York Times at an opulent two-storey villa inside a gated compound at Zintan in the west of the North African country.

Saied, who under the constitution controls the armed forces, warned his opponents against taking up arms, threatening that if anyone "fires a single bullet, our forces will respond with a rain of bullets."

The country's ruling party, the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha, slams the President Kais Saied’s decision to suspend the parliament as unconstitutional and a "state coup against the revolution".

Since his first bid for presidency in 2014, Sisi has used his rides to know more about the problems and aspirations of his countrymen, and what he can do for them.

Lebanon will begin parliamentary consultations to designate a new prime minister and Cabinet from July 26

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