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Lebanon Elects New President After 2.5 Years

HeadlineNov 01, 2016

In Lebanon, the Parliament has elected a new president: former army commander Michel Aoun. Lebanon has been without a president for two-and-a-half years. In his inaugural speech, Michel Aoun announced he’d send some of the 1.5 million Syrian refugees living in Lebanon back to war-torn Syria.

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