French Hostages Return Home, Paris Says No Ransom
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A C130 Hercules plane carrying two French journalists released after a four-month hostage ordeal in Iraq, sits on the runway at the Andreas Papandreou air base in Paphos, Cyprus, December 22, 2004.
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France said on Monday there were indications that two French hostages held in Iraq will be freed and a Muslim negotiator said talks over their release were in the "delivery phase."
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French leaders began high-level meetings on Sunday on the fate of two French hostages in Iraq after Foreign Minister Michel Barnier returned to Paris empty-handed from a Middle East rescue mission.
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Two French journalists were freed in Iraq Tuesday, ending a 4-month hostage ordeal at the hands of Islamic militants that had shocked France and embarrassed President Jacques Chirac&#39;s government.
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Two French journalists released by militants in Iraq returned to a jubilant France on Wednesday and described a four-month ordeal during which masked gunmen shuttled them among five hideouts and interrogated them at length.
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PARIS -- Joy swept France with the release yesterday of two French reporters held hostage in Iraq for four months. The government said Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot should be home for Christmas.
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PARIS The French government vowed on Monday that it would not yield to demands from militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq that Paris withdraw a ban on Islamic head scarves in public schools.
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There is only one story for the entire French media on Wednesday - the release and return home of the French hostages Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot
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France said on Sunday it still hopes two  French hostages in Iraq will be freed, although its foreign  minister returned from a Middle East mission empty-handed  without securing their release.
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Paris did not pay a ransom to secure the  release of two French journalists freed by Islamic militants in  Iraq, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told party  leaders Wednesday.
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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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Two French journalists kept hostage for four months in Iraq return home saying they had "a difficult experience".
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Two French journalists freed from captivity in Iraq arrived home Wednesday to a tearful welcome from their families, ending a four-month drama that had gripped this country, which had opposed the war.
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Two French journalists recently freed by Islamic terrorists in Iraq arrived back in Paris today to great public fanfare and the relief of family and friends.
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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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Two French journalists ended theirfour-month hostage ordeal in Iraq and were expected to fly back home on Wednesday, while the United States pledged to defeat the &quot;enemies of
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Would-be robbers took six people hostage in a bank south of Paris on Tuesday, but all were released unharmed during several hours of negotiations with authorities, and the gunmen surrendered, police said.