'Charges near' in Chad child row
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A prosecutor in Chad says 18 people face charges over the alleged attempted abduction of 103 children.
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Seventeen men and a 14-year-old boy have appeared in court in Australia&#39;s Queensland state, charged in connection with a violent protest on Friday.
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Six aboriginal men will appear in court  on Tuesday charged with sexual assault, including rape, of  underage aboriginal girls -- the first charged since Australia  announced a crack down on indigenous child sexual abuse.
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New charges were filed against a pastor on Monday amid the expansion of an investigation into allegations that leaders of two reclusive church communes sexually abused girls.
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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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Chad's president said Thursday he hopes his country's judicial system will quickly free journalists and an air crew detained in connection with a French charity that was trying to fly children it claimed were orphans from Darfur to Europe.
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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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Six French charity workers convicted of child kidnapping in Chad will appear January 14 before a court outside Paris to have their sentences adjusted, a prosecutor said Saturday.
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Now that a Chadian court has handed down their conviction, the transfer of the six back to France to serve their sentences appears to be just a matter of time. Mending the damaged relations between France and Chad could take far longer
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Four more people were charged Thursday in connection with the case of an 11-year-old girl who authorities say had sex with as many as 20 people as a 16-year-old girl coached her.
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A Sudanese man on Saturday told the trial in Chad of six French charity workers accused of trying to kidnap 103 children that he had misled them into believing some of the children were Darfur war orphans.
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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  - 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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Sixteen Europeans being held in Chad after a charity tried to fly more than 100 children from the central African nation to France may face charges, a Chadian minister 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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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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Several Kazakh doctors and officials are charged over a blood bank scandal that has seen 61 children infected with HIV.