Chirac sends foreign minister to Middle East to negotiate on Iraq hostages
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French President Jacques Chirac said 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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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has held an emergency meeting with senior cabinet ministers to discuss how to respond to the apparent kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq.
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An anxious French government accelerated  its diplomatic bid to save two French reporters held hostage in  Iraq on Tuesday as a fresh kidnapper deadline neared for Paris  to scrap a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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France's government and opposition showed  rare unity in appealing for the release of two Frenchmen held  in Iraq as an Italian envoy flew to the Middle East on Thursday  to urge freedom for two female Italian aid workers.
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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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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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The French foreign minister was expected Sunday to begin negotiations for the release of two journalists taken hostage in Iraq.
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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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President Jacques Chirac dispatched his foreign minister to the Middle East on Sunday to work for the release of two French reporters abducted in Iraq, vowing to spare no effort to free them from kidnappers ...
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ROME, Italy -- Italy&#39;s foreign minister has flown to the Middle East in an attempt to secure the release of two female aid workers taken hostage in Iraq.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier visited Jordan and Egypt to win support for the release of two French hostages in Iraq, Agence France-Presse said.
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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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France's foreign minister appealed Monday for the release of two French journalists abducted in Baghdad, saying he was in the Middle East to explain that his nation was tolerant and not ruling out a trip to the ...
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has summoned colleagues for an emergency meeting to discuss the kidnapping of two journalists in Iraq.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier arrived in Cairo on the first leg of an urgent Middle East mission for contacts with Egyptian officials over two French journalists taken hostage in Iraq, a diplomatic source told AFP.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini arrived today to the Middle East, in a bid to free two female aid workers kidnapped in Iraq.
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Italy's foreign minister  is going to the Middle East to try to secure the release of two Italian women seized in Iraq.