“Lebanon’s
year-old unity government collapsed Wednesday after Hezbollah ministers
and their allies resigned over tensions stemming from a U.N.-backed
tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister
Rafik Hariri,” reports the Associated Press.
“The walkout ushers in the country’s worst political crisis since 2008
in one of the most volatile corners of the Middle East. Prime Minister
Saad Hariri, the son of the slain leader, cut short a visit to
Washington after meeting with President Barack Obama. He was heading to
Paris where he will meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday,
his office in Beirut said. Hariri planned to hold consultations on his
government’s collapse while in France, then would return to Beirut,
according to an official in Hariri’s delegation who spoke on condition
of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic moves….”
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