French go-between claims to be with journalists held in Iraq
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A Frenchman presenting himself as an unofficial negotiator said in a telephone interview with a radio station that he was with two French reporters who are being held hostage by insurgents in Iraq.
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A woman journalist working for French newspaper Liberation and her Iraqi interpreter have been missing in Iraq since early on Wednesday, the daily and the French Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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PARIS, Sep 8  (IPS) - The two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq more  than three weeks back are still in  captivity despite efforts by  French and Iraqi leaders to secure their freedom.
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CAIRO, Egypt Aug. 28, 2004 - Islamic militants released a brief tape showing two French journalists kidnapped recently in Iraq, saying they were holding the men to protest a French law banning headscarves
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The French government sent its foreign minister Sunday to the Middle East region to try to free two French journalists held hostage in Iraq as a truce was reached in Baghdad&#39;s slum of Sadr City.
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A French national who claims he has secured a deal for the release of two French reporters kidnapped in Iraq last month said Wednesday he is waiting for a US authorisation to extract the pair by air.
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French government officials called for the release of two journalists kidnapped in Iraq by a group demanding that France rescind a ban on Islamic headscarves in the nation&#39;s schools, Agence
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France says it does not yet know whether a French female journalist missing in Iraq since early on Wednesday has been taken hostage, and has urged journalists not to travel to Iraq.
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Attempts to release the two French journalists held for over six weeks in Iraq have become enmeshed in new confusion, with the French government expressing fury at the interference of several unofficial French negotiators who claim to be on the brink of
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An Iraqi militant group has announced it is holding two missing French journalists, the BBC reported Saturday. The group reportedly demanded the French government cancel a ban
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The French foreign minister was expected Sunday to begin negotiations for the release of two journalists taken hostage in Iraq.
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That&#39;s according to an account by one of the French journalists held captive for four months in Iraq. In a newspaper account of his ordeal, the reporter says a captor from a group calling itself the Islamic
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Paris - The operation to secure the release of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq was an exclusively French affair, France&#39;s defence minister insisted on Thursday.
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France was torn between hope and doubt  about its two hostages in Iraq on Wednesday after a purported  French negotiator announced their imminent release but  officials insisted they knew nothing about his efforts.
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A woman journalist working for French  newspaper Liberation and her Iraqi interpreter have been  missing in Iraq since early on Wednesday, the daily and the  French Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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As two French journalists arrive back in Paris after 124 days in the hands of Iraqi captors, questions are asked about why they were released.
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Two French journalists have been taken hostage in Iraq by Islamic militants demanding the rescission of a ban on the Islamic headscarf in French schools, the Arabic satellite news channel Al-Jazeera reported.