Chad ready to pardon French aid workers
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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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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.
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Six French charity workers sentenced to eight years' forced labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children were transferred to France on Friday, judicial officials said.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad has received a request for a presidential pardon from the lawyers of six French aid workers jailed in December for trying to abduct 103 African children, the presidency said on Saturday.
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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 French court sentences six aid workers to eight years in prison for trying to kidnap 103 children from Chad last year.
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N'DJAMENA  - Rebels in northern Chad are expected to release shortly a U.S. missionary they seized in October on the suspicion he was a Chadian government spy, a member of the organization he worked for said on Sunday.
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Six French charity workers sentenced to eight years of forced labor for trying to kidnap 103 children from this African country will return to France, a Chadian official said Friday
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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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France says it will ask the Chadian authorities to allow six French aid workers home to serve a jail sentence.
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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.
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Six French aid workers sentenced to 8 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.
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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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N'DJAMENA  - A court in Chad has set December 21 as the date for the start of the trial of six French humanitarian workers accused of trying to smuggle 103 African children to Europe, lawyers said on Thursday.
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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 is ready to launch a military operation in Chad against rebels if necessary, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday.
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European prisoners held in Chad over alleged child smuggling are to be moved to ensure their safety.