Niger orders reporters' release
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A judge orders the release of two French television journalists on bail after one month in custody.
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Three local journalists, including two working for Japanese media, were released late Thursday hours after being detained by police in military-run Myanmar while covering a protest here, one of them told AFP.
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A Nigerian court on Thursday ordered the provisional release of separatist leader Mujahid Asari Dokubo, who had been held since 2005 on treason charges.
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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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The captors of an French-American journalist being held in Iraq have announced he will be released soon.
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A deal has been reached with kidnappers for the release of two CBS News journalists, radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's office in Basra said Wednesday.
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Two French reporters held hostage for four months in Iraq have been released and handed over to French authorities, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
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Two French journalists freed in Iraq after being held hostage for four months are expected back in Paris today. The French Defence Ministry said an air force plane would collect the two men, Christian Chesnot
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One of the two CBS journalists kidnapped in the Iraqi city of Basra on Sunday has been released.
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Authorities in Niger have charged two French journalists with colluding with armed groups in the country's uranium-rich north, which could carry the death penalty if they are convicted, their lawyer said on Saturday.
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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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Ramallah, West Bank - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat issued an urgent call for the immediate release of two French journalists who were taken hostage in Iraq last week, a statement released by his office said late on Sunday.
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The French government demanded 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 within 48 hours.
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Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq have been passed to a group in favour of  freeing them, an editor says.
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Nigerian troops have rounded up scores of suspected militants in their hunt for hostage-takers as one of two Germans abducted in the oil-rich Niger Delta was released.
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An unofficial French negotiator told a radio station Friday that two journalists held for more than a month in Iraq could be released within hours.
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France&#39;s interior minister demanded Sunday the release of two French journalists believed kidnapped by Islamic militants in Iraq.