Chirac Seeks Unity Over French Iraq Hostages
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President Jacques Chirac called for national unity on Tuesday over France's hostage crisis in Iraq, after a bid by self-appointed mediators failed to free two journalists held by Islamist militants.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin called an emergency ministerial meeting Sunday to discuss the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq, local media reported.
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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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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre  Raffarin met ministers for a crisis meeting on two French  journalists held hostage in Iraq on Monday as efforts to secure  their release threatened to turn into a fiasco.
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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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French President Jacques Chirac said Sunday 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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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 ...
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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 leader urges hostage-takers in Iraq to free two journalists - 100 days after they were taken.
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France said on Saturday it hoped Islamic  militants were about to free two French hostages, but urged  caution as fresh violence erupted in Iraq.
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French President Jacques Chirac said Tuesday his country is "entirely committed" to taking part in an international conference on Iraq next month.
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France's government and leaders of its  Muslim minority urged Iraqi militants Sunday to free two French  journalists they were holding hostage in a bid to force Paris  to revoke its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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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 intensified efforts Tuesday to save two journalists held hostage in Iraq, convening crisis talks in Paris and around the Arab world as a 24-hour execution deadline set by militants neared.
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France frantically called on Arab leaders and Muslim religious leaders Wednesday to help save two journalists kidnapped in Iraq, setting in motion
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PARIS Aug. 29, 2004 - 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
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PARIS - French President Jacques Chirac has lashed out at a private initiative to secure the release of two French hostages in Iraq as âinterferenceâ and said he hoped it would not thwart the delicate process, aides said Saturday.