Chad court gives French charity workers to 8 years hard labour
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Six French workers for the Zoe's Ark charity were sentenced on Wednesday to eight years' hard labour in Chad for attempting to take 103 children they said they believed were orphans from Darfur out of the country.
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A French organization whose  members were arrested in Chad as they prepared to fly 103  children to France said on Monday they were trying to help the  children, not abduct them, and they acted legally.
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A Chadian court sentenced six French aid workers to eight years of forced labor Wednesday after finding them guilty of trying to kidnap 103 African children and bring them 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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CRETEIL, France  - Six French activists sentenced in Chad to eight years' hard labor for trying to kidnap dozens of children had their sentences converted into French jail terms of the same length by a court on Monday.
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PARIS  - A donor whose blood was used to transfuse 10 people and to manufacture medicines has been identified as France's eighth known victim of the human equivalent of mad cow disease, health officials announced Thursday.
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An Algerian man was convicted and sentenced to life in prison Friday for helping fund and organize a string of terror attacks that killed eight people in Paris more than a decade ago.
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BOBIGNY, France  - A French court sentenced on Friday 10 Bulgarians to up to six years in prison for having sold babies to French Gypsy families.
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children were being flown to France on Friday to serve their terms there, a Chadian justice ministry official said.
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Five years ago Khadija&#39;s mother sent her  8-year old daughter to work as a housemaid in the city, where  her first employer beat her.
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The head of a French charity on trial with five colleagues in Chad denied on Friday kidnapping 103 children, saying he believed in good faith they were saving orphans from Darfur.
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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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PARIS, Dec. 28 -- Six French charity workers who were sentenced this week in Chad to eight years' hard labor for attempting to kidnap 103 African children were released from prison Friday and flown to France, ostensibly to serve out their sentences at home.
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Deadly toxic waste which caused a   health crisis in Ivory Coast will be shipped to France for   treatment in mid-October, a French embassy official said on   Tuesday, as the death toll from the scandal reached eight.
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President of Chad indicates he is prepared to pardon six French aid workers convicted of the attempted kidnap of Sudanese child refugees
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An international court has ordered Guatemala to pay a record sum of almost &#36;8 million in compensation to survivors of a 1982 army-led massacre of hundreds of civilians in the country's Maya Indian heartland.
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Six French aid workers sentenced to eight years hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children arrived on Friday in France where they are due to serve their sentences in jail.