US had nothing to do with hostages - France
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Paris - The operation to secure the liberation of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq was an exclusively French concern, ministers insisted on Thursday.
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France says no ransom was paid for two hostages flying home after a four-month ordeal in Iraq.
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PARIS/WASHINGTON  - France and the United States   said on Saturday they could not confirm a report that Osama bin   Laden had died and France launched a probe into how a secret   document containing the claim was leaked.
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The US says it will not free a top female Iraqi prisoner as militants threaten to kill a British man.
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Paris did not pay a ransom to secure the  release of two French journalists freed by Islamic militants in  Iraq, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told party  leaders Wednesday.
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The US says the decision to grant political asylum to Chechen separatist Ilyas Akhmadov was not a policy change.
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&quot;Americans also have no right to raise something like this,&quot; he said, adding that Iran had never used its nuclear power program for weapons production.
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Afghanistan's Taliban guerrillas  reiterated on Wednesday that they had nothing to do with the  kidnapping of three U.N. workers and said they opposed the use  of women as hostages for the release of prisoners.
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The French government says no ransom was paid for two hostages returning to France after a four-month ordeal in Iraq.
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Many questioned the intentions of the French government after 9/11. It did not support the war on terror, it was not supportive of U.S. policies at the United Nations and it didn't back the war for a free Iraq.
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Paris - The operation to secure the release of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq was an exclusively French affair, France&#39;s defence minister insisted on Thursday.
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DAMASCUS: Syria denied any link Wednesday with a failed unofficial mediation effort seeking the release of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq.
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PARIS Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin of France said Sunday that he was unable to confirm the authenticity of a statement attributed to a militant group called the Islamic Army in Iraq that said it was releasing two French hostages, on condition
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WASHINGTON, 29  - The United States refused to offer any praise to Cuba for releasing three jailed dissidents who had been imprisoned for more than a year, maintaining they should never have been arrested in the first place.
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France is seen by many Americans as a reluctant ally, at best, in President Bush's war on terror. But a new hostage crisis has made clear that the Gallic nation, with western Europe's largest Muslim population, is not immune to threats from radical Islam.
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Paris did not pay a ransom to secure the release of two French journalists freed by Islamic militants in Iraq, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told party leaders Wednesday.
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Britain got very little in return for supporting the US-led invasion of Iraq, and US policies make it all but impossible for anyone to act as a bridge between Washington and Europe, French President Jacques Chirac said in an interview published Tuesday.