RELEASE FRENCH HOSTAGES: AL-SADR
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Iraq&#39;s radical Shiite Muslim leader, Moqtada Sadr, is calling for the release of two French reporters being held hostage in Iraq.
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France remained hopeful on Sunday that two French hostages in Iraq would be freed and a religious fatwa issued in Iraq demanded their release.
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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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A deal has been reached with kidnappers for the release of two CBS journalists, radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's office in Basra said Wednesday.
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French President Jacques Chirac issued a new appeal for the liberation of two French hostages held by militants in Iraq.
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French President Jacques Chirac said Friday there was "no reason" to give up hope that two French journalists held hostage in Iraq since August will be released.
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John Paul II appeals for the release of two French journalists being held hostage in Iraq.
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SHIITE militiamen loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr offered today to surrender heavy and medium weapons in return for the release of prisoners and a role in Iraq&#39;s political process, a spokesman for Sadr said.
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A man Al Arabiya television said was  negotiating the release of two French journalists held hostage  in Iraq said on Tuesday he met the two Frenchmen and that an  agreement had been reached to free them soon.
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_ Islamic militants released a brief tape showing two French journalists kidnapped recently in Iraq and said they were holding the men to protest a French law banning headscarves in schools, according to footage aired Saturday by an Arab
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy can help secure the release of former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three American hostages held by leftist guerrillas, a rebel commander said in an interview published Thursday.
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A previously unheard-of Damascus-based Iraqi opposition group said that two French journalists held hostage in Iraq for more than a month will be released soon.
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A top aide to firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said today that kidnappers who abducted and threatened to kill a US journalist had promised to set him free.
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DUBAI, Sept 28  - A purported French envoy seeking the release of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq told Al-Arabiya television Tuesday he had seen the pair and a deal had been reached for their release.
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Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq have been released, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told parliament on Tuesday.
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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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The French government prepared for crisis talks Tuesday to save the lives of two journalists held hostage in Iraq, while aides to rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for the release of the reporters as a deadline set by their kidnappers neared.