UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged Lebanon's prime minister and parliament speaker to reconcile and try to elect a new president, warning that failure could lead to two governments and two presidents.
Prime Minister Fuad Saniora's U.S.-backed government has been locked in a fierce power struggle for months with the pro-Syrian, pro-Iranian opposition, led by the military group Hezbollah and backed by opposition-aligned Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.
It is the most serious political crisis since the end of the country's 1975-90 civil war.
Berri has set Sept. 25 for parliament to meet to start voting on a new head of state to replace …
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