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Brest, France- The 95th edition of the Tour de France got underway on Saturday, with a regular stage and no short prologue for the first time in 42 years, and also without the defending champion.

The 180 riders from 20 teams started the three-week action over 197.5 kilometres from Brest to Plumelec. The Tour features two time trials and five mountain stages before it ends on July 27 on the Champs Elysees in Paris. There will be two rest days as well.

Paris - Europe is playing an ineffectual double game with Russia and must cease if it wants to better diversify its energy sources, the former head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Claude

Paris, July 4 : Earth observation satellites have provided vital information to relief workers in Myanmar throughout a particularly long crisis response window following the devastating Cyclone Nar

Paris - "Plenty of problems

Beirut - France, in contrast to the US, does not foresee an imminent breakthrough in resolving the issue of claims to the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms in southern Lebanon, according to reports Fri