Kidnapping of Reporter Likely, Says French Paper
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Just as one hostage nightmare for France in Iraq has ended, another seems to have begun.
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Confusion surrounded the fate of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq on Thursday after a new purported statement from the kidnappers denied they had demanded a $5 million ransom or set a 48-hour deadline.
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An Italian journalist missing in Iraq since last Thursday was probably the victim of a kidnapping in which his driver was killed, his newspaper Diario said.
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An Iraqi group reportedly holding two French journalists has demanded a $5 million ransom - to be paid within 48 hours. The statement was posted on a website and suggested Journalists Christian Chesnot and
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Monday&#39;s press comments on the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq and gives the papers&#39; final verdicts on the summer Athens Olympics.
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Reporters Without Borders expressed &quot;extreme concern&quot; today at a threat to kill two kidnapped French journalists and called on the country&#39;s top religious authorities - the Sunni Committee of Muslim Ulemas and the Shiite leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
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European papers comment on the blast at Moscow's underground station and the continuing uncertain fate of the two French journalists held hostage in Iraq.
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The French government believes that two French journalists taken hostage in Iraq may have been taken to Syria with the connivance of authorities in Damascus.
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PARIS : The captors of two French journalists allegedly put forward 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 managing editor of France's Le Figaro newspaper told a radio station Thursday that two French journalists held hostage in Iraq were still believed alive, even after militants' deadline passed for Paris to overturn a law banning Islamic head scarves or see the pair killed.
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Two French journalists taken hostage in Iraq are believed to be alive and safe, France&#39;s defence minister has said. But Sunni Muslim clerics in Iraq say efforts to free them are being hampered by the escalation of security operations led by US forces.
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That&#39;s according to an account by one of the French journalists held captive for four months in Iraq. In a newspaper account of his ordeal, the reporter says a captor from a group calling itself the Islamic
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Two French journalists held hostage in  Iraq could be freed by the end of this week if U.S. forces open  a security corridor to secure their release, an aide to a  French mediator told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq could be freed by the end of this week if U.S. forces open a security corridor to secure their release, an aide to a French mediator told Reuters on Wednesday.
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A statement purported to be from the kidnappers of two French journalists says they are to announce their fate - adding they did not hand the men to another group.
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An anxious French government accelerated its diplomatic bid to save two French reporters held hostage in Iraq on Tuesday as a fresh kidnapper deadline neared for Paris to scrap a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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A French-American journalist has been kidnapped in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, the region's deputy governor said Monday.