Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega will be extradited to his homeland in the next few weeks, the French Justice Ministry said.

All six French aid workers convicted of a mass kidnapping in Chad have been freed in France, hours after the Chadian president formally pardoned the group, the French Justice Ministry said.

French rock star Bertrand Cantat, serving eight years in Lithuania for the manslaughter of his actress girlfriend, is to be transferred to a prison on his homeland.