Chad to charge French with abduction: prosecutor
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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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A French television host, accused of  attacking and sexually harassing Air France cabin staff while  under the influence of alcohol, will appear in court next  month, a court official said on Monday.
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Chad's president on Friday promised "severe punishment" for a French group that tried to fly 103 children out of Darfur in an operation now under investigation in France and which has also been strongly criticised by the United Nations.
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President of Chad indicates he is prepared to pardon six French aid workers convicted of the attempted kidnap of Sudanese child refugees
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N'DJAMENA  - A court in Chad has set December 21 as the date for the start of the trial of six French humanitarian workers accused of trying to smuggle 103 African children to Europe, lawyers said on Thursday.
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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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President Idriss Deby said attempts by a group of French citizens to fly more than 100 African children out of Chad were "shocking," and promised that all those found involved would be punished.
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French prosecutors investigate alleged embezzlement by the leaders of Gabon and Congo.
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Authorities in Niger have charged two  French journalists with colluding with armed groups in the  country's uranium-rich north, which could carry the death  penalty if they are convicted, their lawyer said on Saturday.
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Six workers were charged in Chad for trying to bring children they said were Darfur war orphans to Europe.
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Congolese singer Papa Wemba was due Sunday to appear in a French court on charges of aiding illegal immigration. Papa Wemba has been accused of receiving payment to procure
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Eighteen people, mainly French and Spanish, face charges over the alleged attempted child abduction.
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Chad's president said Thursday he was "ready to pardon" six French aid workers convicted in December of trying to kidnap more than 100 children they said were orphans from Darfur.
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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.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad has received a request for a presidential pardon from the lawyers of six French aid workers jailed in December for trying to abduct 103 African children, the presidency said on Saturday.
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N'DJAMENA  - Rebels in northern Chad are expected to release shortly a U.S. missionary they seized in October on the suspicion he was a Chadian government spy, a member of the organization he worked for said on Sunday.
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A suspected recruiter of young Muslims for combat in Iraq and a man identified as a volunteer allegedly plotted attacks against French or foreign interests in France, the prosecutor's office said Friday.