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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 26 > New president takes office in Lebanon

New president takes office in Lebanon


May 26, 2008

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament elected the army commander, Gen. Michel Suleiman, as president Sunday, filling a post vacant for six months and bringing a symbolic if tenuous end to the country’s worst crisis since the 15-year civil war ended in 1990.

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