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They were born in Gers in 1949 and had shot to fame in the 1980s on French television, helped by their boyish good looks, Le Figaro reported. Their star turn on the 1979 sci-fi programme Temps X was hugely popular, and ran for eight years. In the show they donned cosmonaut outfits and imparted scientific facts.

Dispute rages over al-Durrah footage By Martin Patience BBC News, Jerusalem They were images broadcast all over the world. The TV footage of a young Palestinian boy, Muhammad al-Durrah, and his father cowering in front of a wall as Israeli forces and Palestinians exchanged gunfire at a crossroads in Gaza. The 12-year-old Muhammad was killed during the incident in September 2000. For Palestinians and many people around the world, the death - coming in the early weeks of the second Palestinian uprising - became a symbol of the brutality of the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza....

Feb. 13, 2003 Iraqi FM tells French TV his country lacks means to attack Israel By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS - Iraqi Foreign Minister Tarik Aziz said in a televised interview Thursday that his country lacks the means to launch a military operation against Israel should a conflict erupt. "We don't have the means to attack Israel that we had in 1991," Aziz told France-2 television, referring to the year that the Gulf War took place. "We aren't a threat to anyone." "We can't talk of reprisals when we don't have the means," Aziz said, speaking in an interview live...