Lebanon's feuding pols block Med gas drilling again

UPI

Lebanon's problem-plagued efforts to launch a major gas exploration program in the eastern Mediterranean seems to be jinxed, largely because of feuding politicians who seem determined to sabotage the troubled country's hopes of economic salvation.

Lebanon has been effectively without a government for six months and the politicians who represent the country's fractious Muslim and Christian sects have repeatedly failed to agree on a new Cabinet, which is needed to give the official go-ahead to oil companies to start drilling in 10 offshore blocks.

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