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MNA International Desk: The path to reduce tensions in the region has become smaller and the moment has come for Iran to help defuse the crisis, France’s president told his Iranian counterpart on Monday, his office said in a statement. Emmanuel Macron and Hassan Rouhani talked for more than 90 minutes shortly after Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel laid the blame for a Sept 14 attack on Saudi oil facilities squarely on Iran. “The president said that in the current situation, the path of de-escalation was narrow, but more necessary than ever, and that ...

MNA International Desk: French President Emmanuel Macron paved the way at a G7 summit for a diplomatic solution to the standoff between Washington and Tehran over a 2015 nuclear deal, but there was little else to show from a meeting at which allies were sharply divided. Macron, host of the summit of seven industrialised nations that ended on Monday in the French seaside resort of Biarritz, said that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had told him he was open to a meeting with US President Donald Trump. Trump told a news conference before heading home that it was realistic to envisage ...

MNA International Desk: Pro-European Emmanuel Macron is set to face far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential run-off, results showed on Sunday. With 96% of votes counted from Sunday’s first round, Macron has 23.9% with Ms Le Pen on 21.4%. Opinion polls have consistently predicted Macron defeating his rival in the run-off. They will contest the run-off on May 7. Conservative François Fillon, dubbed the “Thatcherite” candidate, was eliminated on 19.91 per cent, with revolutionary Leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon coming fourth on 19.64 percent, the Interior Ministry said. The two finalists offer France two very different visions of Europe and ...