Lebanon's parliament is set to vote in army chief General Michel Suleiman as the country's 11th president on Sunday (May 25), filling a post left vacant for six months by a crisis that threatened a new civil war. A Qatari-brokered deal between rival Lebanese leaders last week defused 18 months of political stalemate that erupted into street fighting this month. Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters briefly seized parts of Beirut, routing government loyalists. Lebanese troops tightened security in the capital, blocking off streets leading to parliament in downtown Beirut as members of parliament from the U.S.-supported ruling majority and the Hezbollah-led opposition arrived to attend a parliamentary session at 1400 GMT to elect Suleiman as president. The vote had been postponed 19 times because of the crisis. The agreement aims to defuse a conflict that has stoked sectarian tensions, paralysed government and the country's constitutional institutions, and battered the economy. Parliament...