January 17, 2011 10:07 AM

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Hezbollah won't back Hariri government in Lebanon

In Lebanon, the leader of the militant organisation Hezbollah says his group and its allies will not back caretaker Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri in forming a government. Hassan Nasrallah was making his first public comments since the Lebanese government collapsed last week. Talks on forming a government are expected to start today. Mr Nasrallah also said his movement will reject any indictment from U.N. tribunal which is investigating the murder in 2005 of the former Prime Minister Fariq Hariri. Saad al-Hariri's government fell over a dispute about how to respond if, as expected, a UN tribunal accuses Hezbollah members of being behind the murder of his father. After the government collapsed, President Michel Suleiman asked Mr Hariri to stay on as a caretaker prime minister.

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