Photos of the week: Lebanon elects new president, Qatar's 45th Advisory Council, Candidates register for Kuwait elections

Lebanese celebrate the election for president of Michel Aoun (portrait), a former general backed by the powerful Hezbollah movement as well as longtime rivals, in downtown Beirut on October 31, 2016. Lebanese lawmakers ended a two-year political vacuum by electing as president ex-army chief Michel Aoun, who promised to protect the country from spillover from the war in neighbouring Syria. Photo credit: Getty Images

Government officials sit during the inauguration of the 45th ordinary session of Qatar’s Advisory Council by Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. Photo credit: QNA

Kuwaiti candidate Salah al-Muhawesh (L) registers on the final day of candidate’s registration for the upcoming parliamentary elections, at the election’s department, in Kuwait City on October 28, 2016. Photo credit: Getty Images

Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), third left, speaks during an appearance before the Committee on Financial Affairs in the lower house of parliament in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016. The BOJ will “make policy adjustments as appropriate, taking account of developments in economic activity and prices as well as financial conditions, with a view to maintaining the momentum toward achieving the price stability target,” Kuroda said, delivering the BOJ’s Semiannual Report on Currency and Monetary Control. Photo credit: Getty Images

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