Kamal Shehadi, telecoms regulator

Beirut faces further delay to $6bn telecoms privatisation Premium Content

Auction of state-owned mobile networks set to be put back beyond November.
Lebanese flag on barbed fence

Special report: Lebanon - Polls apart

When Lebanon's MPs convene on 23 October to vote on a successor to President Lahoud, pro-government supporters looking to strengthen links with the West will come up against opposition equally set on reasserting the relationship with Syria.