Six French convicted in Chad to fly home on Friday
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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children will be returned to France on Friday under an accord between the two states, a Chad justice ministry official said.
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Between 2,000 and 3,000 rebel soldiers armed with rifles were moving around the capital of Chad today as Chadian troops used helicopters against them, a French Defense Department spokesman said. The French government said it expected to evacuate 400 foreign nationals today after taking the same number out of its former colony the day before.
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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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N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children left the African nation on Friday for France where they are to serve their sentences in jail under a bilateral accord.
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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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France will start flying humanitarian supplies into eastern Chad on Sunday to help tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees and displaced Chadians, an army spokesman said.
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European prisoners held in Chad over alleged child smuggling are to be moved to ensure their safety.
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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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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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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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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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Six French aid workers sentenced to eight years hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children arrived on Friday in France where they are due to serve their sentences in jail.
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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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Two French journalists were heading home to France on Wednesday after the end of a 4-month hostage ordeal in Iraq which left many unanswered questions about the government's handling of the crisis.
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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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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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Loading worried families onto the last two jumbo jets, France concluded one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa yesterday - an airlift that flew more than 5,000 Westerners away from violence pitting France against its former prize West