Chad prez mad over planned child flight
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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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Chad extended a state of emergency Friday for six months in the country's eastern provinces, where ethnic clashes have killed as many as 400 people and raised fears that Sudan's Darfur conflict is spilling across the border.
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Sudan on Friday accused Chad of sending troops into its western province of Darfur and said Chadian warplanes had bombarded two areas in the region.
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Irish budget airline Ryanair's dawn raid  on rival Aer Lingus this week has prompted a flurry of  political finger-pointing, with the government under fire for  its decision to privatize the carrier.
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OTTAWA (CP) - When Prime Minister Paul Martin steps off his plane Saturday in Tripoli, he'll be entering a land described by human rights advocates as a surreal mix of kitsch and viciousness.
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Sudan has accused Chadian aircraft of bombing its western Darfur region in what it called "repeated aggressions" by its western neighbor.
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ABECHE, Chad  - Chadian authorities charged nine French nationals on Tuesday with abduction and fraud after they were detained trying to fly 103 children to live with families in Europe, Chad's government said.
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EU nationals held over planned airlift of 'orphans' after accusations from Chad.
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Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has assured France a charity's bid to fly 100 children from the country will not hinder the deployment of an EU force on the Darfur border, a French minister said Monday.
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A French minister condemned as "illegal and irresponsible" Friday an attempt by a charity to fly more than 100 children from Chad to France in an apparent mercy mission.
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Chad authorities detain seven Spanish crew members of a plane chartered to fly more than 100 children to France.
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Air travel over the holiday weekend was thrown into an epic snarl that&#39;s been blamed on everything from crashing computers to employee sick calls to lousy winter weather.
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The warning was dire: "The children will be dead in a few months," the French charity said of orphans in Darfur. It asked people to help by paying thousands of dollars to fly them out of the region's turmoil.
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A Chadian military reconnaissance plane was shot down in eastern Chad on Tuesday, a government spokesman said, and a rebel group claimed responsibility. A government spokesman blamed neighboring Sudan for backing the rebels and said it was "a state of war."
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti&#39;s interim prime minister yesterday accused ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of backing a wave of violence while in exile, and criticised the South African Government that is hosting Aristide for what he called
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton complained the Bush administration was shortchanging family planning efforts and said that may be causing abortion rates to go up.