Yemeni president sees French hostages freed soon
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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said  on Tuesday he expected four French tourists held hostage by  tribesmen to be freed within a few days.
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Officials in Paris reiterated Wednesday its cautious optimism that two French reporters and their Syrian driver held hostage in Iraq may be freed, as trucks bearing their pictures criss-crossed the city.
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The Yemeni kidnappers of four French  tourists denied on Sunday reports that they would release the  hostages within hours.
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The French leader urges hostage-takers in Iraq to free two journalists - 100 days after they were taken.
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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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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will visit Britain next week for talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair and other British officials on bilateral relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict and Iraq, the state news agency SABA reported.
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Yemeni tribesmen released four French  tourists on Monday who they had held hostage for more than two  weeks, government officials said.
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The two French journalists held hostage in Iraq for 124 days and freed on Tuesday arrived at about 1730 GMT Wednesday at the Villacoublay military airbase near Paris,where French president greeted them in the drizzle.
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Chad's president says he is ready to pardon French aid workers jailed for abducting children from his country.
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Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa called for the release as soon as possible of two French journalists being held hostage by Islamist kidnappers in Iraq.
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A senior French official called here for patience and discretion as efforts continued to secure the release of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq.
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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 on Wednesday said that France will continue to be iron-willed to oppose all forms of terrorism, hailing the release of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq since August 20.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday Colombian rebels are ready to free two hostages, telling him the location they can be picked up from.
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Four French tourists abducted in Yemen have been freed, says an MP who has been mediating their release.
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The French government remains hopeful about the fate of two its nationals held hostage in Iraq but does not want to jeopardise their release by talking about it too much, an official said today.
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Al Qaeda in Yemen vowed to free its prisoners from the country's jails and retaliate for the killing of militants by the government.