French Held Over Darfur 'Adoptions'
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Nine people have been arrested in Chad, accused of making an unauthorized attempt to fly more than 100 children out of the country
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PARIS, Feb. 1 -- The European Union said Friday it had postponed the deployment of a peacekeeping force to protect Darfur refugees because of an upsurge of rebel activity in neighboring Chad.
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N'DJAMENA  - The leader of a French aid group accused of trying to kidnap 103 African children in Chad told a court on Friday France's government had known from the start about the group's plans to rescue war orphans from Darfur.
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Police in Sierra Leone have arrested  the head of a local aid agency suspected of helping to smuggle  29 children out of the country for adoption in the United  States, a senior police official said on Monday.
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A court sentenced six French charity workers to eight years in prison in France on Monday, after they were convicted in Chad of trying to kidnap 103 children they said were orphans from Darfur.
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ALGIERS -- One of North Africa's most wanted Islamic militant leaders, accused in the kidnapping of 32 European tourists last year, has been taken into custody in Algeria, authorities said yesterday.
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Chadian authorities charged nine  French nationals on Tuesday with abducting children and fraud  after they were detained trying to fly 103 children to Europe.
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The Foreign Office said Friday it was urgently checking reports of a kidnapping in Ethiopia, after eleven French nationals and three Britons were reported missing.
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French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy has said a "real genocide" is under way in the Sudanese province of Darfur.  In an interview broadcast by Radio Monte Carlo Info, he said:  [Douste-Blazy] "I've been to Darfur and I'm going back very soon.
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French authorities investigated Friday a charity that tried to fly out more than 100 children from the war-stricken Darfur region of Sudan, an operation condemned as illegal by the government.
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An employee of Fimat, a futures brokerage affiliated with SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale, was taken into custody for questioning in the Kerviel case, the Paris prosecutorâs office said.
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French police have detained an executive of Total for questioning as part of an investigation into suspected bribes paid to foreign officials by the oil giant, judicial officials said Thursday.
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The Sudanese government is indiscriminately bombing civilian-occupied villages in Darfur, a human rights group charged. France on Thursday raised the idea of sending U.N. peacekeepers to the war-torn region even without Sudanese permission.
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ABECHE, Chad  - Chadian authorities charged nine French nationals on Tuesday with abducting children and fraud after they were detained trying to fly 103 children to Europe.
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Twelve French peacekeepers are arrested in connection with a bank theft in Ivory Coast last week.
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France chairs a Security Council summit on Africa here Tuesday expected to endorse sending European Union and UN troops to Chad and the Central African Republic to protect civilians reeling from a spillover of the Darfur conflict.
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Group accused of kidnapping 103 children from Darfur border.