French Troop Surrenders After Bomb Threat
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A French soldier who had locked himself in an explosives depot and threatened to blow it up turned himself in Monday, the Interior Ministry said, ending a three-day standoff that prompted the evacuation of hundreds of villagers in northeastern France.
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France dispatched another 600 troops Sunday to help calm the volatile situation in the Ivory Coast, where French forces, deployed to enforce a shaky cease-fire, and ordinary civilians have been the targets of violence.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (CP) - With final calls for boarding, France on Monday was shutting down one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa, an airlift that flew 5,000-plus westerners and others from violence pitting France against its former
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France sent reinforcements to Ivory Coast on Sunday after a bloody and confusing weekend ended with the small Ivorian air force shattered and thousands of angry people attacking French nationals and other foreigners, sometimes pulling them from their
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A bomb threat forced the evacuation of a soccer stadium Sunday night during a Spanish league game between Real Madrid and Real Sociedad.
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PARIS, Dec. 17 -- France on Sunday announced the withdrawal of its 200-member contingent of elite special forces from Afghanistan -- all of its ground forces directly engaged in anti-terrorism operations in the country.
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A threat by a militant Islamic group in Iraq to murder two French hostages unless Paris abandons a law banning muslim headscarves in schools was being treated as a national crisis by the French government last night.
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NIAMEY, Niger -- French troop reinforcements flew to the coastal city of Abidjan in riot-torn Ivory Coast yesterday amid rising concerns that the conflict between government and rebel forces was on the verge of spiraling out of control and could dramatically hurt its West African neighbors.
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Some 70,000 people were forced to evacuate Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu stadium minutes before the end of a league match on Sunday after a bomb threat in the name of ETA Basque separatist guerrillas.
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Two French nationals have been taken hostage in Iraq by Islamic militants demanding the rescinding of a ban on the Islamic headscarf in French schools, the Arabic satellite news channel Al-Jazeera reported.
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Two French reporters held hostage for four months in Iraq were released Tuesday and handed over to French authorities.
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A French soldier facing mandatory retirement barricaded himself inside an explosives depot in northern France, threatening to blow up the building and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents, officials said.
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Some 20,000 residents Nantes, of one of the largest cities on France's Atlantic coast, were evacuated from their homes Sunday while experts defused an unexploded Allied bomb from World War II.
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BAGHDAD : The clock was ticking down for two French hostages whose Islamist abductors have served Paris with an ultimatum to lift a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools, while Iraq&#39;s government continued efforts to end the chaos prevailing in the country.
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Two French reporters held hostage in Iraq for the past two weeks are ``out of danger&#39;&#39; and may be freed soon, an Islamic group in France said on its Web site, citing a French Muslim leader who&#39;s been seeking their release.
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Two French reporters held hostage for four months in Iraq have been released and handed over to French authorities, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
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French soldiers from International Security Assistance Force patrol in a residential area of Kabul, Afghanistan&#39;s capital, on Saturday, Oct.30.