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BEIRUT:
France's foreign minister will push proposals to prevent further escalation and a potential war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah during a visit to Lebanon on Sunday as Paris seeks to refine a roadmap that both sides could accept to ease tensions.
France has historical ties with Lebanon and earlier this year Stephane Sejourne delivered…
" OSLO: The Abel Prize for mathematics was awarded Wednesday to France’s Michel Talagrand, an expert on probability theory and functional analysis who says mathematics “gives you wings”.
The former head of French scientific research institute CNRS, Talagrand, 72, was honoured for “groundbreaking contributions” that have “outstanding applications in mathematical physics and statistics,” the Norwegian…