Ex-Iran detainees back in France: 'The culmination of years of hard work'

President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday welcomed two French nationals who returned to Paris after spending almost four years detained in Iran on espionage charges, with the French leader hailing "the end of a terrible ordeal". The release of Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, was the result of
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