Convicted French aid workers fly home
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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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N'DJAMENA  - 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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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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After living under fear of death for 42 days, three Indian truck drivers released by their Iraqi captors today returned home to an emotional welcome by their families here.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three UN workers held hostage for nearly a month were preparing to fly home after their release yesterday from an ordeal that suggested Taliban-linked militants are adopting the tactics of Iraqi insurgents.
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Seven Spanish tourists killed in a suicide bombing while touring a temple in Yemen have been flown home.
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children will be returned to France on Friday under an accord between the two states, a Chad justice ministry official said.
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in Paris as the relieved government basks in a national wave of joy at their safe release. military airport outside the capital on Wednesday one day after they were freed by Iraqi militants.
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A suspected international terrorist is deported to France on national security grounds, the Home Office says.
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A Colombian woman freed last week after six years in rebel hands goes home with news of fellow hostages.
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France on Monday ended one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa -- an airlift that flew more than 5,000 Westerners and others from violence pitting France against its former West African colony.
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PARIS -- After four months of captivity in Iraq, two French journalists have arrived safely home. French journalists Christian Chesnot (left) and Georges Malbrunot returned to France after being held captive in Iraq.
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Two French journalists freed from captivity in Iraq headed home today, ending a four-month drama that had gripped this country, which opposed the U.S. invasion.
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LONDON, July 24 -- Five Bulgarian medical workers arrived home to an emotional welcome Tuesday after more than eight years in Libyan prisons, closing a case that caused international furor over Libyan justice and raised questions about whether a ransom was paid for their release.
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French rock star Bertrand Cantat is returning home from Lithuania to complete his jail term for killing his lover.
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Six French charity workers convicted in Chad of attempting to kidnap 103 children flew out of the central African country Friday to serve out their sentences in France.
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PARIS  - Two French journalists freed in Iraq headed for home and a rapturous welcome at the end of a four-month hostage ordeal as the government in Paris insisted no ransom was paid to secure their freedom.