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Lebanon's parliament elected the former army commander president after a two-year vacancy for the head of state.

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with officials seeing better chances of success in a political landscape shaken by Israel's war with Hezbollah and the toppling of the group's ally Bashar al-Assad in neighbouring Syria.

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