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    Hariri: Lebanon will have a new government within 10 days

    Lebanon will have a new government within seven to ten days, Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri said on Thursday, warning that the economy cannot withstand any further delay, Reuters reported.

    Since a parliamentary election in May, political wrangling has prevented Lebanon from forming a national unity government, raising concerns in a country with one of the world's highest rates of public debt.

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