&#39;Reckless&#39; French MP denies worsening hostage crisis
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PARIS, Oct 4  - A French MP behind a failed bid to free two French reporters held hostage in Iraq defended his freelance operation Monday amid sharp official and media criticism that he may have endangered their lives.
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Two French journalists taken hostage in Iraq are believed to be alive and safe, France&#39;s defence minister has said. But Sunni Muslim clerics in Iraq say efforts to free them are being hampered by the escalation of security operations led by US forces.
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President Jacques Chirac has vowed to spare no effort to free two French reporters held hostage in Iraq by militants who are reportedly demanding that France overturn its law banning Islamic head scarves in schools.
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A Sunni Arab lawmaker held hostage for two months by Shiite militants told parliament Tuesday that the ordeal showed her the agony Iraqis are experiencing at a time of rising sectarian tensions.
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A Sinn Fein MP denies a potential witness to the murder of Paul Quinn is under threat from the IRA.
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Leaving behind two French reporters still held hostage in Iraq, France&#39;s foreign minister headed home from the Middle East but said they were still believed to be alive and that efforts to free them would continue.
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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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A French lawmaker said that US forces had torpedoed his mission to secure the release of two French journalists held in Iraq, leaving six Iraqi security guards dead in one incident.
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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&#39;s prime minister said Monday.
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Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq have urged the French government to give in to their captors&#39; demand by revoking a law banning Muslim head scarves in public schools
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The French government have held crisis talks on the fate of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq amid growing uncertainty over whether their
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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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France has vowed not to give in to the demands of terrorists who are holding two French journalists in Iraq. Militants calling themselves the Islamic Army in Iraq have said that they will release Georges Malbrunot
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Adding his voice to those calling for the release of two French journalists abducted in Iraq last week, and who militants have threatened to execute unless France reverses its policy of banning the wearing of headscarves by Muslim students in schools
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President Jacques Chirac has vowed to spare no effort to free two French reporters held hostage in Iraq by militants who are reportedly demanding that France overturn its law banning Islamic head scarves in ...
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin on Monday expressed skepticism over the alleged new demands of the militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq, saying they had yet to be authenticated.
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The French parliament discusses a tough crime bill amid a row over new Justice Minister Rachida Dati.