France mulls hostage crisis
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Top ministers met on Wednesday shortly before a statement purportedly from the kidnappers was posted on a Web site. It denied having.
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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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France scrambled to secure the release of two French journalists kidnapped by Iraqi militants who gave Paris until Monday evening to drop its controversial ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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CAIRO, Egypt  - France scrambled to secure the  release of two French journalists kidnapped by Iraqi militants  who gave Paris until Monday evening to drop its controversial  ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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France does not yet know whether a French female journalist missing in Iraq since early on Wednesday has been taken hostage, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier says.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin today called a crisis meeting to discuss the fate of the two French journalists still held hostage in Iraq, as efforts to secure their release threatened to descend into farce.
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France says it does not yet know whether a French female journalist missing in Iraq since early on Wednesday has been taken hostage, and has urged journalists not to travel to Iraq.
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The kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq has injected new tension into France's debate over banning Islamic headscarves in schools just as Paris was hoping for a smooth start to the school year this week.
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DUBAI/PARIS  - The French government held crisis  talks on the fate of two French journalists held hostage in  Iraq Wednesday amid growing uncertainty over whether their  kidnappers had demanded a ransom and two-day deadline.
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The French Prime Minister calls a crisis meeting to discuss the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq.
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PARIS (France): France said on Sunday that it was more than ever mobilized after two French journalists were taken hostage in Iraq by militants demanding the rescinding of a ban on the Islamic headscarf in French schools.
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France says it has stepped up its efforts to free two French journalists being held hostage by Iraqi militants who are demanding an end to a ban on Islamic headscarves in French schools.
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The kidnapping of two French journalists  in Iraq has injected new tension into France's debate over  banning Islamic headscarves in schools just as Paris was hoping  for a smooth start to the school year this week.
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PARIS, Sept 6  - The captors of two French journalists allegedly put forward Monday new demands for their release, but French officials cast doubt on the authenticity of the demands and remained cautiously optimistic about securing their release.
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The French government held a crisis meeting on Thursday over the fate of two journalists held hostage in Iraq after a new purported statement from the kidnappers denied they had demanded a ransom or set a deadline.
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Two French journalists held hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq appealed late Monday for their countrymen and president to save their lives by giving in to their captors' demand to rescind a ban on Muslim head scarves in French schools.
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PARIS  -- As hopes dimmed that two French journalists held captive in Iraq would be freed soon, French President Jacques Chirac was to discuss the crisis Sunday with his foreign minister, who returned from a mission to the Middle East with no news of