Chirac Sends FM to Mideast to Win Iraq Hostage Release
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French President Jacques Chirac sent his foreign minister to the Middle East on Sunday to try to win freedom for two journalists held in Iraq by militants demanding France end its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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PARIS - 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 demanding the France scrap its ban on Islamic head scarves in state schools.    Chirac appealed to the kidnappers with an implicit reminder that France opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq...
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini flew to the Mideast on Monday in a bid to free two female aid workers taken hostage in Iraq.
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France&#39;s foreign minister appealed today for the release of two French journalists abducted in Baghdad, saying the French respect all religions.
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France has sent a senior foreign ministry official to the Jordanian capital Amman as part of efforts to secure the release of two French hostages in Iraq, the ministry announced.
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France sent its Foreign Minister Michel Barnier to Egypt on the first stage of a visit to the Middle East to discuss the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq, Agence France-Presse reported.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier says government officials will go to Baghdad to work for the release of two French journalists abducted in the Iraqi capital.
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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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President Jacques Chirac called for national unity to help free two French reporters held hostage in Iraq after recriminations over a botched unofficial rescue mission badly embarrassed him and his government.
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France has sent a senior foreign ministry official to the Jordanian capital Amman as part of efforts to secure the release of two French hostages in Iraq ( news - web sites ), the ministry announced.
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The Italian foreign minister will travel to the Middle East in an effort to secure the release of two Italian women aid workers kidnapped in Iraq.
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France redoubled its diplomatic efforts on Tuesday to save two French reporters held hostage in Iraq ahead of a new deadline to scrap a school headscarf ban, as the Islamic militant group Hamas called for the men's release.
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French President Jacques Chirac said that Iraq's interim president will travel to Paris early next month for talks on how France can best contribute to Iraq's reconstruction.
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France says it still hopes two French hostages in Iraq will be freed, although its foreign minister has returned from a Middle East mission empty-handed without securing their release.
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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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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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France was doing everything possible to secure the release of a woman journalist taken hostage in Iraq last month, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said on Tuesday.