France 'to take in' Farc rebels
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France says it is willing to take in Colombian Farc rebels if they are freed in exchange for hostages.
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Colombia is proposing to meet with Marxist rebels in a foreign embassy to negotiate the release of 50 imprisoned guerrillas in exchange for 72 hostages including three Americans.
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French forces transported munitions from Libya and other countries to Chad's army during a rebellion earlier this month, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
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Top Marxist rebel Ricardo Palmera was extradited to the United States yesterday, becoming the first leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to face US drug and terrorism charges, officials said. Army commandos with assault rifles and US Drug Enforcement Administration agents escorted Palmera, wearing handcuffs and a bulletproof jacket, to a US government plane at a military airfield outside Bogota.
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France's president is to sign a nuclear co-operation deal with the United Arab Emirates during a tour of the region.
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The rebels are seeking to force the countryâs president, Idriss DÃ©by, to share power or step down.
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French officials sought on Wednesday to ease tensions with Chad after President Nicolas Sarkozy offended local sensibilities by promising to bring home a group of Europeans accused of abducting 103 African children.
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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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ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast and France traded jabs Monday over responsibility for last week&#39;s unrest, as the UN Security Council appeared set to impose an arms embargo on the divided west African state.
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Chadian rebels from the Union of Forces for Development and Democracy (UFDD) launched a new offensive in the far east of the country, bordering Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, French and Chadian officials said.
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Colombia agreed on Wednesday to allow Venezuelan aircraft to land in the country to pick up three hostages held for years by leftist guerrillas, including a child born in captivity.
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The EU insists it will not remove Colombia's Farc rebels from its "terror list", despite recent calls by Venezuela.
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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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France has sent around 100 extra troops to the Central African Republic after a series of rebel attacks in the poor, landlocked country, which borders Sudan's violent Darfur region, the French military said on Thursday.
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Preparations are under  way in Colombia as  diplomats say rebels could be ready to free three hostages on Friday.
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BAGHDAD, Aug 29  - For the first time since the kidnappings of foreigners started in Iraq in April, hostage takers have set conditions external to the country by demanding that France lift a ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools.
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Colombia agreed Wednesday to allow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to send his planes and helicopters into its territory to pick up three hostages who have been held for years by leftist rebels.