Zoe's Ark sentences shock France
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French aid workers were sentenced to eight years hard labor and $9 million Wednesday after being convicted for kidnapping children in the African nation of Chad.
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It will be a week that Paris Hilton &#151; and a celebrity-obsessed nation &#151; won't soon forget. What started as a graceful attempt by the 26-year-old socialite to accept her punishment for violating probation in a reckless driving case ended Friday when a disheveled and tearful Hilton was ordered back to jail to serve out the remainder of her 45-day sentence.
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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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A judge ordered a weeping and trembling Paris Hilton back to jail on Friday to finish a sentence for probation violation, overturning a sheriff's decision to let the celebrity heiress serve out her time under home arrest.
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Europe's Court of Human Rights says France discriminated against a lesbian who wanted to adopt a child.
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Six French aid workers were sentenced  to eight years of hard labor each after a court in Chad found  them guilty on Wednesday of trying to kidnap 103 children from  the African country.
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children flew out of the African nation on Friday bound for France where they are due to serve their sentences in jail.
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PARIS, Dec. 26 -- A court in Chad on Wednesday sentenced six French charity workers to eight years of hard labor each on charges of trying to kidnap 103 African children.
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A French court on Monday sentenced six charity workers to eight years in prison, after they were convicted in Chad of trying to abduct more than 100 children from the border with war-torn Darfur.
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A French court convicted dozens of people on Friday in a baby-trafficking case involving the sale of nearly two dozen Bulgarian infants over two years.
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Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to life in prison in Libya for allegedly contaminating children with the AIDS virus left Tripoli Tuesday on board a plane with the French president's wife, France's presidential palace said.
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Five former Guantanamo Bay inmates were  found guilty on Wednesday of terrorism-related charges by a  French court and sentenced to one year in prison.
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Social workers in Paris were astonished to find more than 68,400 euros (94,250 dollars) on a homeless woman when they moved her off the street last week, police said.
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A French court jailed Algerian Rachid  Ramda for life on Friday for his role in financing a spate of  bomb attacks on the Paris underground rail network that killed  eight people and wounded 200 others in 1995.
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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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French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was handed a three-month suspended jail sentence on Friday for describing the Nazi occupation of France as "not especially inhumane."
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LOS ANGELES &#151; The city's top prosecutor's office got Paris Hilton jailed for violating probation by driving with a suspended license and then condemned her early release.