Silent march in France on 100th day of captivity of journalists held in Iraq
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Hundreds of people marked the 100 days in captivity of two French reporters in Iraq with a silent march through a western French town, while the family of one of the kidnapped men appealed for their release before Christmas.
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France today marked what President Jacques Chirac called a - oesad anniversary - - ' 100 days since two French reporters were taken hostage in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD/PARIS  - A French Muslim delegation in  Iraq said Thursday they had proof that two French hostages held  by Islamic militants were alive, even though France refused to  lift a ban on Muslim headscarves as the school year began.
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Kidnappers of two French journalists in a statement Tuesday praised France&#39;s &quot;positive steps toward the Iraqi people,&quot; a sign that the hostage-takers may be softening their anti-French position.
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The fate of two abducted French journalists in Iraq is the main focus of Tuesday's press. German papers look ahead gloomily to today's three-way summit meeting in Russia, while a Russian paper finds a novel way to claim Olympic victory.
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Islamic militants released a brief tape showing two French journalists kidnapped recently in Iraq and said they were holding the men to protest a French law banning headscarves in schools, according to footage ...
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France on Saturday marked what President Jacques Chirac called a sad anniversary -- 100 days since two French reporters were taken hostage in Iraq.
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The group holding the two French journalists hostage in Iraq have issued a scathing denunciation of France on its Web site, saying the country has a &quot;history of oppression and persecution of Muslims and Islam.
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PARIS - As France awaited word on two journalists being held hostage in Iraq, officials made clear that they expected to benefit from their stand against the US-led invasion and occupation.
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Four months of quiet negotiations by France and several Arab countries paid off yesterday with the release of two French journalists kidnapped by an Iraqi extremist group in August.
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U.S. forces in Iraq said Friday they are not holding a missing French reporter last seen leaving her Baghdad hotel two days ago, raising concern that she was kidnapped. France's president suggested it was irresponsible to dispatch journalists to Iraq.
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France will maintain its ban on Muslim scarves and other signs of religious belief in state schools, ignoring demands by the Iraqi kidnappers of two French reporters, government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope said.
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Joy swept France with the release Tuesday in Iraq of two French reporters held hostage for four months.
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Leaving behind two French reporters still held hostage in Iraq, France&#39;s foreign minister headed home from the Middle East but said they were still believed to be alive and that efforts to free them would continue.
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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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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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France said on Sunday two French reporters held hostage with their Syrian driver in Iraq were still alive a few days ago. &quot;We are working discreetly, following up leads, reestablishing