Pakistani lawmakers on Tuesday began voting for a new president, marking an end to the five-year term of outgoing Asif Ali Zardari whose party lost May’s general elections.

Bulgaria is strongly committed to signing a good-neighbor agreement with Macedonia and is negotiating to settle the matters that still exist in the bilateral relations, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin has said.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Tuesday called for an end to violence in Egypt and for the release of deposed president Mohammed Morsi and other political prisoners, who are mainly from the Muslim Brotherhood.