France warns on Chad rebels
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The French embassy warns its citizens in Chad, after reports that rebels are planning a new offensive.
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French PM Jean-Pierre Raffarin urges caution on reports that two French journalists held in Iraq may soon be freed.
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The European Union called on Chad's  warring government and rebels to negotiate a peace deal, as  relief agencies said on Monday a new refugee crisis was  developing in the east where EU troops are being deployed.
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N'DJAMENA  - The European Union called on Chad's warring government and rebels to negotiate a peace deal as relief agencies said on Monday a fresh refugee crisis was developing in the east where EU troops are being deployed.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chadian rebels surrounded the presidential palace in N'Djamena on Saturday after storming into the capital, and France began evacuating French and foreign nationals from the city.
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Some 30,000 Sudanese, victims of fresh  attacks by Arab militia inside Darfur, have threatened to cross  into Chad, the U.N. refugee agency warned on Friday.
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France may take measures against a key Darfur rebel leader living in Paris if he continues to refuse to attend peace talks this week, a French human rights envoy said on a visit to Sudan on Monday.
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Chad's foreign minister accused  Sudan of attacking his country and said talks expected on  Thursday between the two neighbors and Central African Republic  would be "useless."
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French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie warned Monday that without the stabilizing presence of foreign peacekeepers, the Ivory Coast risked erupting into bloodshed akin to
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CANNES, France  - Chad's foreign minister accused Sudan of attacking his country and said talks expected on Thursday between the two neighbors and Central African Republic would be "useless".
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France is ready to launch a military operation in Chad against rebels if necessary, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday
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Violence in Chad could turn into a genocide, the UN says, as the country signs a peace pact with its neighbours.
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N'DJAMEMA  - France rallied the international community on Tuesday in support of Chad's President Idriss Deby after he survived a fierce attack on the capital N'Djamena by rebels seeking to topple him.
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France said Thursday it would appeal to Chad to hand over six French charity workers convicted and sentenced to eight years forced labor for trying to kidnap 103 children from the central African country.
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France declared it would intervene to protect the Chadian government if called upon and a Darfur rebel group said it had sent troops to help bolster the president.
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Chad's government told the French military it still was fighting rebels using "air power" outside of N'Djamena, the capital, according to French military spokesman Cmdr. Christophe Prazuck
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Violence threatens to drag Chad and the Central African Republic into a regional war.