Chirac calls for hostage release
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French President Jacques Chirac has sent his foreign minister to the Middle East to try to win freedom for two journalists held in Iraq by militants demanding France end its ban on Muslim headscarves in ...
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President Jacques Chirac appealed for national unity Tuesday to try to stem criticism of France&#39;s failure to secure the release of two French journalists held in Iraq and restore faith in French diplomacy.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin called a ministerial crisis meeting on two French journalists held hostage in Iraq on Monday as efforts to secure their release threatened to turn into a fiasco.
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Pope John Paul appealed yesterday for the release of the French and other hostages in Iraq, saying human beings could not be treated like merchandise.
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Signs suggest hope for a possible release of the two French journalists held hostage in Iraq, Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin said Saturday.
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Two French hostages in Iraq urge France to lift a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools to save their lives.
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Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq urged the French government to revoke a ban on the Islamic scarf, as they were shown in a video on Al-Jazeera TV Monday.
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PARIS Aug. 29, 2004 - President Jacques Chirac dispatched his foreign minister to the Middle East on Sunday to work for the release of two French reporters abducted in Iraq, vowing to spare no effort to
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The French foreign minister is to begin negotiations for the release of two journalists taken hostage in Iraq. In a televised address after a day of government crisis talks, President Jacques Chirac on Sunday
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THE two French journalists freed by insurgents in Iraq after four months as hostages &quot;are now on their way to Paris&quot;, President Jacques Chirac said today.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin today called a crisis meeting to discuss the fate of the two French journalists still held hostage in Iraq, as efforts to secure their release threatened to descend into farce.
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Arab journalists call for the release of a French reporter missing in Iraq - if indeed she has been kidnapped.
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France&#39;s foreign minister appealed today for the release of two French journalists abducted in Baghdad, saying the French respect all religions.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier flew back to Paris from Jordan on Saturday to brief President Jacques Chirac on efforts to save two French hostages in Iraq amid hopes they will soon be freed.
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French President Jacques Chirac sent his  foreign minister to the Middle East on Sunday to try to win  freedom for two journalists held in Iraq by militants demanding  France end its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq have been released, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has said. &quot;I have the profound joy of announcing that Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot have
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A group of Arab journalists call for the release of a French reporter missing in Iraq - if indeed she has been kidnapped.