US slammed for hindering French release
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An influential cleric has lambasted US-led forces for conducting a damaging military raid that he says has harmed efforts to secure the release of two French journalists.
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France's first lady hits back at criticism of her role in securing the release of medical workers in Libya.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 19  - The United States on Friday pronounced itself unimpressed by this week&#39;s mass release of nearly 4,000 prisoners from jails in military-run Myanmar and demanded immediate freedom for all political detainees, including opposition
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"The US admits it has no reason to hold these men, but the inaction of the international community has left them stranded. "The prolonged detention of these men is unconscionable"  A group of lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees on Friday criticized a US decision to transfer a group of former inmates to Albania. via Raw Story
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The US has strongly criticised Iran over the detention of three US citizens and the suspected arrest of a fourth.
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PARIS -- US diplomats here respond to Jacques Chirac&#39;s continued Yankee-bashing following George W. Bush&#39;s re-election by saying the French president is out of step with his people, who are not nearly that anti-American.
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CAIRO AND PARIS A kidnapping campaign originally focused on terrorizing foreign companies and countries into leaving Iraq has now turned on France, one of the foremost Western critics of the US invasion of ...
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The planned release of a US citizen captured in Afghanistan as a suspected enemy combatant has been delayed, a State Department official said Thursday, because of what the US official described as a snag in negotiations with the Saudi government.
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European leaders condemned a Libyan court's death sentence on six foreign medical workers, while the United States vowed to pursue efforts to gain their release.
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France is responding to a US report its leaders accepted bribes from Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime with dismay, denial and indignation.
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The US and British embassies in Iraq pressed ahead with efforts to free two US citizens and a Briton kidnapped at gunpoint from their home in Baghdad this week.
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transporting them was bombarded by US forces, an aide to a French MP aiming to help free them has said. Christian Chesnot to Syria on Friday but was delayed by the firing.
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France criticized two self-appointed mediators Saturday for interfering in efforts to secure the release of two French hostages in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD  - A French national who claims he has secured a deal for the release of two French reporters kidnapped in Iraq last month said Wednesday he is waiting for a US authorization to extract the pair by air.
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Cuba accuses the US of issuing fewer entry visas to Cubans than allowed for by a deal between the two countries.
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Britain complained to the United States over the deportation of pop singer turned Islamic activist Cat Stevens, who was denied entry on national security grounds.
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BAGHDADâThe brother of a British hostage held by terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi accused the United States yesterday of sabotaging efforts to save the captive&#39;s life, while the Italian government cast doubt on claims that two kidnapped Italian