SAINT DENIS, July 19, 2008 (AFP) - Comoros rebel leader Mohamed Bacar, who fled to France's Indian Ocean island of Reunion in March, was on Saturday expelled with his brother and two supporters, authorities said.

SAINT DENIS, Reunion, March 29, 2008 (AFP) - Ousted Anjouan leader Mohamed Bacar and 22 of his supporters were in military custody Saturday on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, as France examines their demand for political asylum.

SAINT DENIS, Reunion, March 29, 2008 (AFP) - A court on the French island of Reunion on Saturday dismissed the case against the ousted leader of the Comoros island of Anjouan, Mohamed Bacar, but ordered him held in custody.

The decision also involved 23 other men, mostly soldiers. All will remain in custody for the time being, police said.

SAINT DENIS, Reunion, March 28, 2008 (AFP) - The ousted leader of the Comoros island of Anjouan, Mohamed Bacar, will appear in court in Reunion on Saturday along with 23 other men, mostly soldiers, the prosecutor said.

Bacar was driven out of Anjouan -- the third largest island in the Comoros archipelago -- on Tuesday by an African Union force after rejecting calls to step down.

SAINT DENIS, Reunion, March 27, 2008 (AFP) - A French military transport airplane carrying the ousted rebel leader of the Comoros island of Anjouan, Mohamed Bacar, was seen Friday landing on the French island of Reunion.

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte, March 27, 2008 (AFP) - The ousted rebel leader of the Comoros island of Anjouan, Mohamed Bacar, left the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte Thursday on a military aircraft bound for Reunion, officials said.

SAINT DENIS, Reunion, March 27, 2008 (AFP) - The ousted rebel leader of the Comoros island of Anjouan, Mohamed Bacar, will be placed under investigation on weapons charges when he arrives in Reunion, a French minister said Thursday.

PARIS, March 27, 2008 (AFP) - French military officials are to fly the ousted rebel leader of the Comoros island of Anjouan, Mohamed Bacar, to Reunion, the French defence ministry said Thursday.

Bacar was being held at the main airport on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, where he escaped after he was driven out of Anjouan by Comoran and African Union troops on Tuesday.

BOGOTA, Jan 13, 2008 (AFP) - Colombian former hostage Clara Rojas met Sunday with her three year old son Emmanuel, born while she was a captive of the FARC rebel army but taken from her at eight months of age, a government source told AFP.

LONDON, Nov 27, 2007 (AFP) - A 91-year-old great-great-grandmother was reunited with a daughter she gave up for adoption towards the end of World War II at a pub in western England on Tuesday.

Annie Burriss was adopted in 1945 and was only told the truth in her 20s, sparking a 30-year search for her real family.