George Kordahi, Lebanon’s information minister, resigned on Friday, citing diplomatic pressure from the French. A video of Kordahi circulated back in October in which he called the Saudi war in Yemen futile, adding that the Iran-backed Houthi rebel group was acting in self-defense. That sparked a diplomatic row with Saudi Arabia and several other Gulf countries. The World’s Shirin Jaafari updates Marco Werman with the latest.
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