Lebanon's New Government Lebanon's President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday parliamentary consultations to choose a new prime minister who will form the country's next government will begin on Oct. 15. Lebanon's government resigned on Aug. 10 in the wake of a devastating blast that killed nearly 200 people and wrecked swathes of the capital, Beirut. Mustapha Adib, the country's former ambassador to Berlin, was picked on Aug. 31 to form a cabinet after French President Emmanuel Macron intervened, securing a consensus on naming him in a country where power is shared out between Muslim and Christian sects. He quit in late September, however, after trying for almost a month to line up a non-partisan cabinet. His resignation dealt a blow to a French plan aimed at rallying sectarian political leaders to tackle the worst crisis since the nation's 1975-1990 civil war. Under the French roadmap, the new government would take steps to tackle corruption and get rid of the terrorist organization, Hezbollah. Some speculate that there might be a peace deal with Israel, depending on who is chosen to be prime minister. Source and Media: Reuters