Sarkozy calls Chad children case illegal
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President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday condemned an attempt by a French group to spirit more than 100 children out of Chad on the grounds that they were orphans from Darfur in danger of being killed.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged world powers Monday to take a tough line with Sudan if it balks at efforts to end bloodshed in Darfur, and argued that ignoring the situation was tantamount to complicity.
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A court in Chad sets a date for the trial of six French nationals charged with trying to kidnap 103 children.
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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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French President Nicolas Sarkozy should  use his visit to Morocco to press for the arrest of five people  wanted over the 1960s abduction of a Moroccan opposition leader  in Paris, the family's lawyer said on Tuesday.
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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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Nine French nationals were still behind bars in Chad on Saturday after a French minister condemned as "illegal and irresponsible" an attempt by a charity to fly more than 100 children from Chad to France in an apparent mercy mission.
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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 court in Chad on Wednesday sentenced six French workers from the Zoe's Ark charity to eight years' hard labour for trying to fly 103 children they said were orphans from Darfur out to France.
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Paris scrambled Monday to contain a row sparked by a French charity's bid to airlift more than 100 children out of Chad, a key ally for Europe's peacekeeping strategy in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region.
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Nine French citizens are arrested in Chad over an alleged attempt to fly over 100 children out of the country.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy is suing a French news website for reporting he sent a text message to his ex-wife Cecilia offering to call off his wedding to Carla Bruni if she took him back, his lawyer said.
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Six French aid workers accused of trying to kidnap 103 children went on trial in Chad, where there is popular pressure for them to be punished.
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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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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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Nine people have been arrested in Chad, accused of making an unauthorized attempt to fly more than 100 children out of the country
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A prosecutor in Chad says 18 people face charges over the alleged attempted abduction of 103 children.