Lebanese leaders start talks in Qatar to end political crisis




Leaders of Lebanon's US-backed government and the Hizbullah-led opposition are sitting down behind closed doors in Qatar for the highest-level talks so far in the 18-month political crisis.

 

The Doha-hosted meeting on forming a national unity government and electing a president was agreed under a deal between feuding factions to end Lebanon's worst violence since the 1975-1990 civil war. (AP)