Europeans risk kidnapping charge over Chad 'adoptions'
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France's ambassador to Chad said Sunday that six charity workers risking kidnap charges for trying to fly 103 children to France from the Chad-Darfur border must face the consequences of their acts.
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This was the scene recently at a children's home in Antigua, Guatemala, before police removed 46 babies, suspecting they had been kidnapped or coerced from their parents to be put up for foreign adoption.
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France asked Chad on Thursday to hand over six French charity workers convicted and sentenced to eight years forced labor for trying to kidnap 103 children from the central African country.
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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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Paris -- A high-stakes scheme to free two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq threatens to embroil President Jacques Chirac in a political scandal over whether his government assisted private intermediaries in negotiating with terrorists for the hostages
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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 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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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 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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Reports that Britons kidnapped in  Ethiopia have been found are investigated by the Foreign Office.
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Nine French citizens were arrested in Chad after a group tried to fly more than 100 African children to France, saying it wanted to save them from the crisis in neighboring Darfur, the French Foreign Ministry said.
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Six workers were sentenced in Chad for trying to bring children they said were Darfur war orphans to Europe.
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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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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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MADRID, Oct 30  (IPS) - Authorities and civil society organisations in  Spain have roundly condemned an apparent case of trafficking of  children from Chad. But they defend the innocence of the seven  Spanish crew members of a plane chartered by the French charity  L'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark) to remove 103 children from  the country in north-central Africa.
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ABECHE, Chad  - 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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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children were being flown to France on Friday to serve their terms there, a Chadian justice ministry official said.