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Lebanon's Hariri set to form government with Hezbollah (Reuters)

BEIRUT (Reuters) Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri will announce a new national unity government to include Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah in the next few days, politicians said on Saturday.

Lebanon has been without a functioning government since Hariri led his...

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Lebanon's Hariri set to form government with Hezbollah (Reuters) [Yahoo! News - 11/07/2009]

...on Friday night. "Participants at the talks have agreed to forge ahead with the formation of the national unity government in accordance with the regulations that were agreed upon during the negotiations that had been conducted" Hezbollah said in a...

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