French Foreign Minister Arrives In Egypt On Hostage Release Mission
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier arrived in Cairo early Monday on the first leg of an urgent Middle East mission for contacts with Egyptian officials over two French journalists taken hostage in Iraq, a ...
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France Foreign Minister Michel Barnier arrived here Wednesday on a three-day official visit to hold talks with Indian leaders on a variety of issues of bilateral interest, apart from major regional and ...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his model-turned-singer girlfriend, Carla Bruni, arrived holding hands in Luxor Tuesday, kicking off a private visit to Egypt.
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French President Jacques Chirac said Sunday that he would immediately dispatch his foreign minister to the Middle East to help negotiate the release of two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq.
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A Japanese minister arrived in Jordan on  Thursday to seek the release of a hostage in Iraq, less than 24  hours before a deadline set by his captors, who have threatened  to behead the youth unless Japan withdraws its troops.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner arrived in Khartoum on Sunday ahead of talks with President Omar al-Beshir on the crisis in war-torn Darfur.
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British officials were on diplomatic tenterhooks as they awaited the arrival on Thursday of French President Jacques Chirac for a two-day state visit to Britain.
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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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Meanwhile, Italy&#39;s foreign minister, Franco Frattini, arrived in Kuwait on an 11th-hour mission to win the release of two Italian women hostages kidnapped by Islamist militants last week.
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A French envoy seeking the release of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq told Al-Arabiya television he had seen the pair and a deal had been reached on 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 President Jacques Chirac has sent his Foreign Minister to the Middle East to try to secure the release of two journalists who are being held hostage in Iraq.
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France's foreign minister appealed Monday 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 says government officials will go to Baghdad to work for the release of two French journalists abducted in the Iraqi capital.
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PARIS -- President Jacques Chirac dispatched his foreign minister to the Middle East yesterday to work for the release of two French reporters abducted in Iraq, vowing to spare no effort to free them from kidnappers demanding that France scrap its ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools.
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The Foreign Office said Friday it was urgently checking reports of a kidnapping in Ethiopia, after eleven French nationals and three Britons were reported missing.
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France said on Sunday it still hopes two  French hostages in Iraq will be freed, although its foreign  minister returned from a Middle East mission empty-handed  without securing their release.