Former PM Najib Mikati named Lebanon's prime minister-designate - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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French Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Fabius (R) meets Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati on November 26, 2013. — French Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Fabius (R) meets Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati on November 26, 2013, at the Quai d'Orsay, the Foreign Affairs ministry, in Paris. — KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images

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Lebanon forms new government

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A boy digs in a garbage container in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Jan. 15, 2021.

Half a million children in Lebanon still 'struggling to survive' after Beirut blast

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Lebanon's President Michel Aoun waves to his supporters outside the presidential palace in Baabda before delivering a speech to mark the end of his mandate

Lebanon's political crisis deepens as Aoun vacates presidential palace

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Lebanon's newly-appointed Prime Minister Mustapha Adib (C) visits Beirut's badly-hit Gemmayzeh neighbourhood, on August 31, 2020. - Lebanon's under-fire political leaders designated a new prime minister, the diplomat Mustapha Adib, to tackle the country's deep political and economic crisis, hours before French President Emmanuel Macron was due to visit. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Lebanon taps diplomat Mustapha Adib as next prime minister

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