France seeks return of Chad aid workers
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France asked Chad on Thursday 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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Chad asks the IMF for a loan to pay for looking after more than 100,000 refugees from conflict-torn Darfur in western Sudan.
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Chad's president said Thursday he hopes his country's judicial system will quickly free journalists and an air crew detained in connection with a French charity that was trying to fly children it claimed were orphans from Darfur to Europe.
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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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Six French aid workers convicted by a court in Chad of trying to kidnap 103 children arrived in France on Friday following a deal that will allow them to serve their eight-year sentences in a French prison.
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France warns rebels in Chad that it could intervene if they continue to threaten the capital, N'Djamena.
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Chad's president said Thursday he was "ready to pardon" six French aid workers convicted in December of trying to kidnap over 100 children they said were orphans from Darfur.
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ABECHE, Chad  - Chadian authorities will charge nine French nationals with abducting children and fraud, a prosecutor said on Monday, after they tried to fly 103 African children out of the country to live with European families.
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France&#39;s foreign minister appealed today for the release of two French journalists abducted in Baghdad, saying the French respect all religions.
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The State Department urged the Sudanese government Wednesday to arrange for the return of thousands of people in Darfur who were forcibly removed from a camp where they had taken refuge.
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N'DJAMEMA  - France's defense minister flew to Chad on Wednesday in a show of support for President Idriss Deby who survived a weekend assault on the capital N'Djamena by rebels.
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Six French aid workers sentenced to  hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children will be  returned to France on Friday under an accord between the two  states, a Chad justice ministry official said.
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France's foreign minister hailed Tuesday's resumed deployment of a much-awaited European Union peacekeeping force in Chad, where a rebellion had halted the troop movement.
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France is pushing for an aid corridor into Sudan's Darfur region as a solution to the crisis at the G8.
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Chad's president says he is ready to pardon French aid workers jailed for abducting children from his country.
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Six French aid workers accused of trying to kidnap 103 children went on trial in Chad, where there is popular pressure for them to be punished.
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France will provide air support to humanitarian organizations supplying food and medicine to refugee camps in eastern Chad, a defense ministry spokesman said on Friday.