Rival factions Tuesday engaged in horse-trading and jockeying for key ministerial portfolios as Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri stepped up his efforts to form a Cabinet of specialists to enact reforms. Hariri met with President Michel Aoun for the third time in four days, in a move underlining the premier-designate’s intention to hasten the formation of a new government made up of nonpartisan experts as he had pledged. Such a government ...