Chad vows to punish French for child smuggling bid
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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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French officials sought on Wednesday to ease tensions with Chad after President Nicolas Sarkozy offended local sensibilities by promising to bring home a group of Europeans accused of abducting 103 African children.
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French aid workers are accused of trying to steal more than 100 children in Chad. The charity says the children were orphans from Sudan's Darfur region being taken to foster families. But Chad officials say the children, some as young as 1, are its nationals, and the United Nations appears to be backing Chad.
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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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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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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's chief prosecutor asked a court on Wednesday to sentence a group of French aid workers to between 7 and 11 years forced labor for trying to kidnap 103 children from the African country.
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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 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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Nine French citizens are arrested in Chad over an alleged attempt to fly over 100 children out of the country.
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Six French charity workers sentenced to eight years' forced labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children were transferred to France on Friday, judicial officials said.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's chief prosecutor asked a court on Wednesday to sentence a group of French aid workers to forced labor for between seven and 11 years for trying to kidnap 103 children from the African country.
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N'DJAMENA, Chad -- Six French charity workers sentenced to eight years of forced labor for trying to kidnap 103 children from this African country will return to France, a Chadian official said Friday.
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CRETEIL, France  - Six French activists sentenced in Chad to eight years' hard labor for trying to kidnap dozens of children had their sentences converted into French jail terms of the same length by a court on Monday.
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Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno said Thursday he was willing to pardon six French aid workers convicted of trying to fly more than 100 children out of the country, now serving their jail terms in France.
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France said Thursday it would appeal to Chad 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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France's president condemns charity workers caught trying to take 100 children out of the Chad-Darfur region.
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N'DJAMENA  - France asked Chad on Thursday 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.