Exhausting all possibilities to form a coalition Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Blue and White’s Benny Gantz, Labor’s Merav Michaeli, and Meretz leader Nitzan Horovitz, Channel 12 news reports.
On Wednesday, Netanyahu called Mansour Abbas, chairman of Islamist party Ra’am, for the first time since the March election in a bid to get him to support direct elections, a proposal the incumbent prime minister has thrown his weight behind as his other attempts at forming a government after last month’s elections have so far fallen flat.
In his conversations with left-wing party heads, Netanyahu reportedly attempted to muster support for direct elections at a later stage, if the change bloc, guided by Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid, fails to form a government.
ROME: During a private audience in the Vatican with Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, Pope Francis on Thursday confirmed that he wants to visit the country as soon as possible.
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told a press briefing attended by Arab News that the pope “reiterated his closeness to the Lebanese people, who live in a time of great difficulty and uncertainty.”
Bruni said the pope confirmed to Hariri his desire to visit Lebanon “as soon as the conditions will allow it,” and expressed his wish that the country, “with the help of the international community,” will once again be a land of “coexistence and pluralism.”
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Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II on Tuesday received the Lebanese minister for youth and sport, Vartine Ohanian, who visited the Holy See of St. Echmiadzin with an accompanying delegation including H.E. Mrs. Maya Dagher, the Lebanese ambassador in Yerevan, and H.E. Mr. Vahagn Atabekyan, the Armenian ambassador in Beirut.
The Lebanese-Armenian politician conveyed to the Supreme Patriarch greetings and kind wishes from Lebanese President Michel Aoun, announcing her plan to visit Armenia later this month as his official representative to attend the April 24 Genocide commemoration events.
Highlighting the Lebanese-Armenian community’s primary focus on the existing challenges and problems in the historical fatherland, Minister Ohanian expressed the strong commitment to maximum assist in their solution.
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A merchant sits in his leather shop behind hanging leather bags and purses at the historic Hamidiyah souk (market) in the old city of Syria s capital Damascus on April 21, 2021, during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP
1/4 A Palestinian vendor waits for customers during the fasting month of Ramadan, amid the coronavirus pandemic in the Old City of Nablus, 21 April 2021. EPA
2/4 A general view of a 20 meter Fanous (Lantern) in Shoubra district, Cairo, Egypt, 20 April 2021, that was made by a coptic man, in celebration of the holy month of Ramadan. EPA
3/4 A Kashmiri Muslim man recites the Qoran, the holy book of Muslims, as others pray during the holy month of Ramadan at a shrine in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 21 April 2021. EPA