Arafat calls for release of French journos
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Ramallah, West Bank - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat issued an urgent call for the immediate release of two French journalists who were taken hostage in Iraq last week, a statement released by his office said late on Sunday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian leaders were  going ahead with a visit to France to see critically ill  Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, a senior Palestinian  official told Reuters on Monday.
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Palestinian leaders said Monday they had asked for a full report on Yasser Arafat&#39;s death in a Paris hospital last week, challenging French laws under which his widow has maintained a veil of secrecy.
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The Palestinian prime minister promised Friday to make public the cause of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, as Palestinian leaders dispatched an emissary to Paris to pick up his medical records.
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Adding his voice to those calling for the release of two French journalists abducted in Iraq last week, and who militants have threatened to execute unless France reverses its policy of banning the wearing of headscarves by Muslim students in schools
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Seriously ill Palestinian  leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday prepared to fly to France for  treatment for a blood disorder as fears grew for the icon of  the Palestinian struggle for statehood.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - A French journalist abducted by Somali gunmen wants international media watchdogs to press for his release, a Somali journalist related to the kidnappers said on Thursday.
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Top Palestinians are to meet the French president and government ministers in a bid to see their ailing leader, Yasser Arafat, who is in hospital in Paris.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians urged Israel  on Friday to expand a prisoner release to ensure the success of  a summit both sides hope will result in a formal declaration to  end violence.
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A group of Arab journalists call for the release of a French reporter missing in Iraq - if indeed she has been kidnapped.
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Yasser Arafat lay in critical condition  in a French hospital on Saturday and militants pressed  Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie to give them decision-  making powers in a temporary unified leadership if he dies.
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Arab journalists call for the release of a French reporter missing in Iraq - if indeed she has been kidnapped.
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Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa on Monday urged the release of the two French journalists kidnapped by Islamic militants in Iraq.
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RAMALLAH: Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei called on Saturday for the United States to pressure Israel to release jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi and other imprisoned Palestinian leaders.
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French government officials called for the release of two journalists kidnapped in Iraq by a group demanding that France rescind a ban on Islamic headscarves in the nation&#39;s schools, Agence
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PARIS, Oct 29  - The relatives of six French citizens killed in Palestinian attacks in Israel several years ago have called for French authorities to question Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat while he receives treatment in Paris for a serious medical
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has ordered his security services to help secure the release of a CNN producer kidnapped by Palestinian militants in Gaza.