intensified
for the prospect that Hezbollah will emerge with its influence enhanced.
The last government was brought to breaking point by the
looming
certainty that senior Hezbollah figures would be held responsible by UN investigators for the assassination of Mr Hariri's father in 2005.
The head of Tunisia's armed forces has warned that a power vacuum in the country could bring back dictatorship. General Rachid Ammar addressed anti-government protesters in the capital Tunis, from where Magdi Abdelhadi reports.
General Ammar's appearance took everyone by surprise. He addressed a crowd of protesters who've been occupying the government quarter and are refusing to leave until the interim administration has resigned because it is
dominate
d by people who used to work for the ousted president. Speaking through a megaphone and surrounded by soldiers, the general told the crowd that their revolution was also the army's revolution. But in what appears to be a warning to the protesters, he urged them not to obstruct the work of the government; in other words, he wants them to go home.
Further leaked documents about Middle East peace negotiations have been published by the Qatar-based news channel al-Jazeera and the Guardian newspaper in Britain. The latest documents include allegations that Palestinian negotiators privately agreed to limit the number of refugees allowed to return to Israel as part of a settlement. According to the Guardian, the Palestinian side agreed that only 10,000 Palestinian refugee families would return