France has joined the list of countries urging its citizens living in Lebanon to leave the country as fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East grow. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked its citizens to arrange travel urgently due to “a highly volatile” security situation. Paris is following in the footsteps of the US and the UK, whose foreign ministries both called on their nationals to leave on Saturday. The UK urged its nationals in Lebanon to “leave now” on available flights, and warned that that “the situation could deteriorate rapidly”. British Foreign Secretary David Lammy po…