France is engaged in "multiple contacts" aimed at averting an escalation of hostilities on Lebanon's southern border between the Shia movement HizbAllah and the Israeli army, the French foreign ministry said Sunday. Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri earlier Sunday urged France and the United States to "intervene" to calm the tensions, adding that French President Emmanuel Macron had spoken by telephone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President ...
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