John Kerry cuts short Europe trip after breaking leg in bike crash

Geneva

US Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in a cycling accident in France on Sunday and will fly back to the United States for treatment, cutting short a European trip.

Mr Kerry, 71, a keen cyclist, was hospitalised in the Swiss city of Geneva after the accident across the border in the French Alps, the State Department said.

The top US diplomat, who had been holding talks in Switzerland on the Iran nuclear crisis, broke his right femur in the accident in Scionzier near Chamonix.

A source in the French local government office said Mr Kerry had wanted to cycle one of the stages of the Tour de France, the challenging Col de la Colombiere mountai…