The powerful Lebanese group Hezbollah is working to remove obstacles to a deal on a new government which must be formed as soon as possible to avoid collapse, one of its top officials said on Thursday.
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Lebanon has been without a functioning government since Saad al-Hariri quit as prime minister in October after
protests against the political elite over corruption, leaving the country without a rescue plan as financial and economic crises deepen.
Spiraling regional tensions since the killing of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, a close ally of Shi'ite Hezbollah, by the
United States last week have added to the risks facing the heavily indebted state.