French Leaders Discuss Hostage Crisis in Iraq
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French leaders began high-level meetings  on Sunday on the fate of two French hostages in Iraq after  Foreign Minister Michel Barnier returned to Paris empty-handed  from a Middle East rescue mission.
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France pressed on with efforts to save two French journalists held hostage in Iraq on Thursday after a deadline to rescind a law banning Muslim headscarves in state schools passed without word from the kidnappers.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin called an emergency ministerial meeting Sunday to discuss the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq, local media reported.
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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.
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France said on Monday there were  indications that two French hostages held in Iraq will be freed  and a Muslim negotiator said talks over their release were in  the "delivery phase."
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AMMAN, Jordan -- France is pressing on with efforts to secure the release of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq, after a deadline to revoke a law banning Muslim headscarves in schools passed without word from the kidnappers.
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The French foreign minister was expected Sunday to begin negotiations for the release of two journalists taken hostage in Iraq. President Jacques Chirac confirmed Sunday he
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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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A French negotiator said on Tuesday he met two French journalists being held hostage in Iraq and that an agreement had been reached to free them soon.
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The French leader urges hostage-takers in Iraq to free two journalists - 100 days after they were taken.
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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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BAGHDAD/PARIS  - France said Friday two French  hostages held in Iraq were being well treated but there were  hurdles to overcome to secure their release.
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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 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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France frantically called on Arab leaders and Muslim religious leaders Wednesday to help save two journalists kidnapped in Iraq, setting in motion
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The French Foreign Minister has called for the release of two French journalists being held hostage by Islamist kidnappers in Iraq.
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Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq have called on president Jacques Chirac to save their lives by giving in to the demands of their kidnappers.