Chad to pardon French kidnappers
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The release of French aid workers jailed for kidnapping appears imminent after Chad says it will pardon them.
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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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Nine French citizens are arrested in Chad over an alleged attempt to fly children out of the country.
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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, Chad, Oct. 27 -- Seven crew members of a plane contracted to fly more than 100 children out of Chad were detained, authorities said Saturday, and Chad's president promised punishment for anyone involved in a plan to spirit the children to Europe.
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The captors of an French-American journalist being held in Iraq have announced he will be released soon.
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Six aid workers convicted in Chad for child trafficking are in court in France to have their sentences adapted.
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Six French workers for the Zoe's Ark charity were sentenced on Wednesday to eight years' hard labour in Chad for attempting to take 103 children they said they believed were orphans from Darfur out of the country.
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A Chadian minister says six French aid workers are likely to go to jail after trying to fly 100 children out of Chad.
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Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno said Thursday he was willing to pardon six French aid workers convicted of trying to fly more than 100 children out of the country, now serving their jail terms in France.
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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 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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PARIS, Dec. 28 -- Six French charity workers who were sentenced this week in Chad to eight years' hard labor for attempting to kidnap 103 African children were released from prison Friday and flown to France, ostensibly to serve out their sentences at home.
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Six French aid workers convicted by a  court in Chad of trying to kidnap 103 children arrived in  France on Friday following a deal that will allow them to serve  their eight-year sentences in a French prison.
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PARIS, Dec. 28 -- Six French charity workers who were sentenced earlier this week in Chad to eight years of hard labor for attempting to kidnap 103 African children were released from prison Friday and flown to France, ostensibly to serve out their sentences at home.
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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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Six French aid workers were sentenced  to eight years of hard labor each after a court in Chad found  them guilty on Wednesday of trying to kidnap 103 children from  the African country.