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A judge sentenced six French aid workers to eight years hard labor Wednesday after convicting them of trying to kidnap 103 children in the central African country of Chad.

The judge also fined each of the six defendants to pay ?60,000 ($87,000) to each of the 103 children, according the CNN Paris-based affiliate, BFM-TV.

That order would require each defendant to pay a total of ?6,180,000 ($8.9 million.) Read full article »

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