US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to Paris later this month for talks on the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, the US State Department said Thursday, according to dpa. Rice will also meet with new French President Nicholas Sarkozy and Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora during the trip Sunday and Monday, spokesman Sean McCormack said. Rice will attend an international meeting Monday on the deteriorating situation in Darfur hosted by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.