Chad 'kidnapping' angers Sarkozy
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France's president condemns charity workers caught trying to take 100 children out of the Chad-Darfur region.
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N'DJAMENA, Chad, Oct. 27 -- Seven crew members of a plane contracted to fly more than 100 children out of Chad were detained, authorities said Saturday, and Chad's president promised punishment for anyone involved in a plan to spirit the children to Europe.
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CAIRO, EGYPT - A group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq says it has kidnapped two French journalists to protest a new French law that forbids the wear of religious items in schools.
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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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The clash that nearly toppled Chadâs government has heightened tensions with Sudan, threatening to pull the neighbors deeper into each otherâs problems.
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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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PARIS - French President Jacques Chirac has lashed out at a private initiative to secure the release of two French hostages in Iraq as âinterferenceâ and said he hoped it would not thwart the delicate process, aides said Saturday.
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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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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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The row continues in France over president Sarkozy meeting the Libyan leader. Especially after defense executives vowed to boost the country's arms exports
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The French government Sunday scrambled to develop a response to kidnappers who grabbed two French journalists in Iraq, demanding Paris revoke a law banning Islamic head scarves in public schools. There was no sign France would capitulate.
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Two French journalists in Iraq have been kidnapped by Islamic militants who say they are protesting against the French government&#39;s ban on wearing the hijab in schools.
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The Vatican expresses anger at the abduction of Georges Casmoussa, one of Iraq's most senior Christian clerics.
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N'DJAMENA  - France prepared a formal request on Thursday asking Chad to send home six French aid workers sentenced to eight years' hard labor for trying to kidnap 103 children, the Foreign Ministry in Paris said.
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Chadian rebels are pushed back from the capital N'Djamena, which they had seized over the weekend.
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Chad's prime minister demanded Monday that the international community remove refugees who have fled to Chad from Sudan's Darfur region.
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CAIRO AND PARIS A kidnapping campaign originally focused on terrorizing foreign companies and countries into leaving Iraq has now turned on France, one of the foremost Western critics of the US invasion of ...