[Reuters] Nadim Ladki - Five pro-Syrian Shi'ite Muslim ministers from Hizballah and its ally, the Amal movement, resigned from Lebanon's cabinet on Saturday after the collapse of talks on giving their camp more say in government. The pro-Syrian party has threatened mass demonstrations demanding new parliamentary elections unless more of its allies are admitted to the cabinet by mid-November. The majority coalition is willing to bring in Christian opposition leader Michel Aoun, a Hizballah ally, but not to surrender one-third of seats to the opposition.
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