Lebanon MPs sit in as 11th vote for president fails
Two politicians have spent the night inside Lebanon's parliament building in protest at MPs' failure to elect a new president for the 11th time./ Najat Saliba and Melhem Khalaf refused to leave the chamber after the latest round of voting, spending the night inside the darkened building./ The outgoing president's term expired on 31 October and a replacement should have been voted in before he left./ But Lebanon's various sectarian parties have still not agreed on a successor./ "No-one tried to remove us," Najat Saliba told the BBC. "On the ...
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