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Newly elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun (right) meets with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut on January 10, 2025. [AFP]
The weakening of Hezbollah in last year's war with Israel allowed Lebanon's long deadlocked parliament to reach consensus around a president who has the confidence of the international community.
Army chief Joseph Aoun, who was elected on Thursday ending a more than two-year vacancy, signalled a readjustment of Lebanon's foreign policy as the country works with international creditors to forge a way out of six years of deepening financial crisis.
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