Angelique Chrisafis in Paris guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 June 2011 18.50 BST
Two French television journalists held hostage in Afghanistan since December 2009 have been freed, the Elysée Palace has confirmed.
Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier of the state TV channel France 3 were kidnapped with three Afghan associates in the mountains of Kapisa, east of Kabul, while working on a documentary about the protection and reconstruction of a road near the Pakistan border.
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