French foreign minister arrives in Egypt on hostage release mission
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier arrived in Cairo on the first leg of an urgent Middle East mission for contacts with Egyptian officials over two French journalists taken hostage in Iraq, a diplomatic source told AFP.
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British officials were on diplomatic tenterhooks as they awaited the arrival on Thursday of French President Jacques Chirac for a two-day state visit to Britain.
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A negotiator trying to secure the release of the two French journalists being held hostage in Iraq has said he is with them and they could be free &quot;within hours&quot;.
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France Foreign Minister Michel Barnier arrived here Wednesday on a three-day official visit to hold talks with Indian leaders on a variety of issues of bilateral interest, apart from major regional and ...
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Italy's foreign minister  is going to the Middle East to try to secure the release of two Italian women seized in Iraq.
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France&#39;s interior minister demanded Sunday the release of two French journalists believed kidnapped by Islamic militants in Iraq.
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The French foreign minister was expected Sunday to begin negotiations for the release of two journalists taken hostage in Iraq. President Jacques Chirac confirmed Sunday he
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner arrived in Khartoum on Sunday ahead of talks with President Omar al-Beshir on the crisis in war-torn Darfur.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier visited Jordan and Egypt to win support for the release of two French hostages in Iraq, Agence France-Presse said.
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Six French aid workers convicted by a court in Chad of trying to kidnap 103 children arrived in France on Friday following a deal that will allow them to serve their eight-year sentences in a French prison.
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France's foreign minister appealed Monday for the release of two French journalists abducted in Baghdad, saying he was in the Middle East to explain that his nation respects all religions and that he was not ...
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said on Monday his ministry takes the overseas French citizens&#39; security as its first priority following the killing of a Frenchman in Saudi Arabia on Sunday.
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The French Foreign Ministry has confirmed that two French journalists held hostage by an Iraqi insurgency group since August have been released.
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The body of an Egyptian who was kidnapped in Iraq last month has been found in the northern part of the country, police said on Sunday, as France awaited word on the fate of two seized French reporters.
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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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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom began a joint press conference with visiting German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer today by praising the release of Israeli Azzam Azzam by Egypt.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Egypt on Tuesday for a private holiday accompanied by his new girlfriend, former supermodel Carla Bruni.