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Lebanon to hold talks to name PM

Lebanon is set to begin consultations for the appointment of a new premier amid a political crisis that engulfed the country over a US-backed tribunal probing the assassination of the former prime minister.

Lebanese President Michel Sleiman will hold two days of meetings with parliamentary groups to name a new prime minister.

The meetings are being held as the tribunal is set to submit indictments in the 2005 assassination of Rafiq Hariri on Monday.

Saad Hariri’s government collapsed on Wednesday when Hezbollah and its allies resigned in a dispute over the US-sponsored Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), investigating the 2005 killing of Hariri.

Unconfirmed reports say the US-sponsored court will most likely issue an indictment against some Hezbollah members.

Hezbollah, however, rebuffed the allegations, describing the court as a part of dangerous projects against the resistance movement.

Earlier, Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said the movement and its allies would not back Hariri as prime minister.

He declined, however, to name the opposition candidate for prime minister.

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