Chad prez mad over planned child flight
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President Idriss Deby said attempts by a group of French citizens to fly more than 100 African children out of Chad were "shocking," and promised that all those found involved would be punished.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton complained the Bush administration was shortchanging family planning efforts and said that may be causing abortion rates to go up.
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Chad's prime minister demanded Monday that the international community remove refugees who have fled to Chad from Sudan's Darfur region.
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OTTAWA (CP) - When Prime Minister Paul Martin steps off his plane Saturday in Tripoli, he'll be entering a land described by human rights advocates as a surreal mix of kitsch and viciousness.
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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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The threat of open conflict between Sudan and neighbouring Chad is rising, with each side accusing the other of seeking to destabilise their already tense common border.
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United Nations chief Kofi Annan has come under fire over revelations that his son was paid by a Swiss company that had a contract under the UN&#39;s oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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A Chadian judge late Monday laid kidnapping and complicity charges against 16 Europeans held over a charity's attempt to fly more than 100 children to France, the prosecutor's office in the eastern town of Abeche told AFP.
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Two passengers are arrested and taken off a flight in Paris amid protests over the deportation of a Nigerian youth.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chadian President Idriss Deby vowed on Friday that nine French nationals detained for trying to smuggle out African children to live with European families would pay for their "horrible" crime.
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A Chadian military reconnaissance plane was shot down in eastern Chad on Tuesday, a government spokesman said, and a rebel group claimed responsibility. A government spokesman blamed neighboring Sudan for backing the rebels and said it was "a state of war."
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The French and American embassies in Chad prepared nationals there for possible evacuation as rebels opposed to President Idriss Deby threatened the capital.
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Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has assured France a charity's bid to fly 100 children from the country will not hinder the deployment of an EU force on the Darfur border, a French minister said Monday.
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Archbishop Jose Gomez complained Wednesday about plans for a rally by Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, an abortion rights supporter, at a Catholic university.
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ABECHE, Chad  - The scandal over a French group suspected of trying to smuggle African children to Europe from Chad may harm the image of foreign aid workers seeking to help refugees fleeing violence, U.N. officials said on Monday.
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Irish budget airline Ryanair's dawn raid on rival Aer Lingus this week has prompted a flurry of political finger-pointing, with the government under fire for its decision to privatize the carrier.
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Air travel over the holiday weekend was thrown into an epic snarl that&#39;s been blamed on everything from crashing computers to employee sick calls to lousy winter weather.