French Foreign Ministry official rushed to Amman amid hope for hostage release
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France has sent a senior foreign ministry official to the Jordanian capital Amman as part of efforts to secure the release of two French hostages in Iraq, the ministry announced.
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France was doing everything possible to secure the release of a woman journalist taken hostage in Iraq last month, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said on Tuesday.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier says government officials will go to Baghdad to work for the release of two French journalists abducted in the Iraqi capital.
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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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AMMAN, Jordan -- France is pressing on with efforts to secure the release of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq, after a deadline to revoke a law banning Muslim headscarves in schools passed without word from the kidnappers.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier and a French Muslim dignitary delegation are still waitingin Amman on Friday evening for the release of the two French journalists held
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President Jacques Chirac dispatched his foreign minister to the Middle East on Sunday to work for the release of two French reporters abducted in Iraq, vowing to spare no effort to free them from kidnappers ...
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier  flew back to Paris from Jordan on Saturday to brief President  Jacques Chirac on efforts to save two French hostages in Iraq  amid hopes they will soon be freed.
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Diplomatic efforts mount as a deadline nears for two French journalists held hostage in Iraq.
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier arrived in Cairo early Monday on the first leg of an urgent Middle East mission for contacts with Egyptian officials over two French journalists taken hostage in Iraq, a ...
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Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq could be freed by the end of this week if U.S. forces open a security corridor to secure their release, an aide to a French mediator told Reuters on Wednesday.
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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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PARIS -- President Jacques Chirac dispatched his foreign minister to the Middle East yesterday to work for the release of two French reporters abducted in Iraq, vowing to spare no effort to free them from kidnappers demanding that France scrap its ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools.
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An anxious French government accelerated its diplomatic bid to save two French reporters held hostage in Iraq on Tuesday as a fresh kidnapper deadline neared for Paris to scrap a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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France said on Sunday it still hopes two  French hostages in Iraq will be freed, although its foreign  minister returned from a Middle East mission empty-handed  without securing their release.
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FRENCH APPEAL: President Jacques Chirac dispatched his foreign minister to the Middle East on Sunday to work for the release of two French reporters abducted in Iraq, vowing to spare no effort to free them from ...
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France sent its Foreign Minister Michel Barnier to Egypt on the first stage of a visit to the Middle East to discuss the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq, Agence France-Presse reported.