French scribes seek evacuation from Syria

Two French reporters, Edith Bouvier and William Daniels, begged for rescue from a besieged Syrian opposition enclave, as President Nicolas Sarkozy branded the deaths of two of their colleagues “murder”.

Two French reporters, Edith Bouvier and William Daniels, begged for rescue from a besieged Syrian opposition enclave, as President Nicolas Sarkozy branded the deaths of two of their colleagues “murder”.

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Syrian insisted it could not be held responsible for the deaths of journalists who had “sneaked” across the border without visas and were working in ‘trouble-hit areas”.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 46 people, most of them civilians, were killed in violence across Syria on Thursday. Agencies