French Premier Skeptical of Ransom Demand
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Experts on Islamic militant groups are skeptical about a Web posting demanding $5 million in ransom for two French journalists held hostage in Iraq, France's prime minister said Monday.
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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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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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France's involvement in Ivory Coast receives sceptical scrutiny in several papers.
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France's president is heading for a showdown with European finance ministers over its budget deficit.
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Hopes for a speedy release of two French hostages in Iraq gave way to expressions of doubt and concern Tuesday after a statement setting out new demands for their release was posted on a Web site.
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PARIS - French President Jacques Chirac has lashed out at a private initiative to secure the release of two French hostages in Iraq as âinterferenceâ and said he hoped it would not thwart the delicate process, aides said Saturday.
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Former Prime Minister Alain Juppe, once viewed as a future president of France, began the appeal of his conviction in a political funding scandal, saying on Wednesday that he did not intend to break the law.
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French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin said he was unable to confirm the authenticity of a statement attributed to the Islamic army in Iraq saying it was releasing two French hostages on condition they cover the activities of the resistance.
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Paris - The operation to secure the liberation of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq was an exclusively French concern, ministers insisted on Thursday.
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An unlikely icon is at the center of President Sarkozy's latest problem with some parts of the public
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The French government insisted yesterday that no ransom had been paid to secure the release of two journalists taken hostage more than four months ago in Iraq.
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The French government will not allow the crisis-hit bank Societe Generale to be the target of a "hostile" takeover bid, Prime Minister Francois Fillon warned on Tuesday.
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THE French Prime Minister today expressed scepticism over the alleged new demands of militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq.
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The French President has called for national unity for the sake of two French hostages in Iraq, as a row broke out over a failed attempt to free them.
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Paris did not pay a ransom to secure the release of two French journalists freed by Islamic militants in Iraq, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told party leaders Wednesday.