'Fairly recent' proof that French reporters held in Syria alive

PARIS: Paris has had "fairly recent" proof that four French journalists who have been kidnapped in war-torn Syria are alive, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in a television interview on Thursday.

The four -- Europe 1 radio's Didier Francois, photographer Edouard Elias, reporter Nicolas Henin and Pierre Torres, a photographer -- were seized in two separate incidents in June.