JERUSALEM (AFP) – Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres, 92, was hospitalised Thursday for cardiovascular problems and is in stable condition after a medical procedure, his spokesman said.
Peres was hospitalised “after experiencing chest pains,” the spokesman said in a statement.
“He underwent a cardiac catheterisation during which a narrowed artery was diagnosed which was then widened during the procedure. Former President Peres is feeling well and is fully conscious, his condition is stable.”
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