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United States Ready to Work With New Lebanese Govt, President Aoun Tweets

Reuters

   BEIRUT - The United States is ready to work with a new Lebanese
   government that responds to the needs of its people, President Donald
   Trump said in a cable to Lebanese President Michael Aoun, according to
   a tweet from Aoun on Thursday.

   Lebanon is mired in a deep political crisis amid nationwide protests
   that prompted Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri to resign on Oct. 29.

   U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged Lebanon's leaders to form
   a new government capable of enacting reforms and fighting corruption
   after Hariri's resignation.

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