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Thursday, December 19, 2019
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Thursday, December 19, 2019
Lebanon taps Hezbollah-backed candidate to form government
Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun says he is appointing Hezbollah-backed Hassan Diab as prime minister-designate.
Aoun names Diab after a day of consultations with lawmakers in which he gained a simple majority of the 128-member parliament.
Diab, 60, faces the daunting task of forming a government to tackle the country’s worst economic crisis since the 1975-90 civil war.
— Agencies
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