French, Spanish charged over Chad children flight
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ABECHE, Chad  - Chad's authorities brought abduction and fraud charges on Tuesday against nine French and seven Spanish nationals it accused of illegally trying to fly 103 African children to Europe.
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Chad authorities detain seven Spanish crew members of a plane chartered to fly more than 100 children to France.
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French forces transported munitions from Libya and other countries to Chad's army during a rebellion in the Central African country earlier this month, a French Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
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French charity workers sentenced to eight years' hard labour for trying to fly children out of Chad to France will be sent home today
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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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Two passengers are arrested and taken off a flight in Paris amid protests over the deportation of a Nigerian youth.
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MOSCOW  - Prosecutors charged three people Friday in connection with last month's bombings of two Russian airliners, the Interfax news agency reported.
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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 group of French charity workers, condemned at home for an attempt to fly more than 100 children to France from the Chad-Darfur border, awaited a decision Monday from the Chadian authorities on whether to press kidnapping charges.
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Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court filed their first indictment Monday, charging a former Congolese warlord for allegedly abducting and recruiting children as young as 10 to fight in Congo's brutal civil war.
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children left the African nation on Friday for France where they are to serve their sentences in jail under a bilateral accord.
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People in the Chadian town of Abeche protest about last week's alleged attempt to smuggle children to France.
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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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A Sudanese man on Saturday told the trial in Chad of six French charity workers accused of trying to kidnap 103 children that he had misled them into believing some of the children were Darfur war orphans.
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Federal prosecutors have charged a Dutch aviation services company, its owner and two other firms with exporting parachutes, aircraft parts and equipment to Iran in violation of U.S. embargoes, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
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Six French nationals accused of trying to kidnap 103 children in Chad go on trial in the capital, N'Djamena.
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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.