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  • Lebanon elects Joseph Aoun as president after two-year vacancy

    Lebanon elects Joseph Aoun as president after two-year vacancy

    Army commander’s election increases confidence that ceasefire with Israel will hold Lebanon’s parliament has elected the army commander Joseph Aoun as the country’s new president, ending a more than two-year vacancy and increasing confidence that a ceasefire with Israel will hold. Aoun received 99 out of 128 votes in the 13th attempt by a deeply…