Chad ready to pardon French aid workers
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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 over 100 children they said were orphans from Darfur.
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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.
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Six French charity workers sentenced to eight years of forced labor for trying to kidnap 103 children from Chad will return to France, a Chadian official said.
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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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A French organization whose  members were arrested in Chad as they prepared to fly 103  children to France said on Monday they were trying to help the  children, not abduct them, and they acted legally.
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Aid workers in Chad's capital collect bodies from the weekend street battles as France's defence minister visits.
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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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The 103 children French aid workers are jailed for trying to kidnap from Chad have yet to be reunited with their families more than three months after their ordeal began, the U.N. children's agency said Friday.
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France says it will ask the Chadian authorities to allow six French aid workers home to serve a jail sentence.
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French aid workers were sentenced to eight years hard labor and $9 million Wednesday after being convicted for kidnapping children in the African nation of Chad.
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N'DJAMENA  - The French and U.S. embassies in Chad were preparing their nationals there for possible evacuation on Saturday as advancing rebels opposed to President Idriss Deby threatened the capital N'Djamena from the northeast.
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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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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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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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Chad's violence could turn into another genocide, the UN warns, as the country signs a peace pact with its neighbours.
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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.
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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.