France sends more troops to Ivory Coast in retaliation for ...
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France yesterday sent a further 300 troops to bolster a retaliation operation against the government of Ivory Coast after nine of its soldiers were killed in an air raid ordered
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French troop reinforcements flew to the coastal city of Abidjan in riot-torn Ivory Coast yesterday amid rising concerns that the conflict between
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ABIDJAN, Nov 12  - The top French soldier in Ivory Coast has confirmed that women were raped in anti-French violence that has erupted in the volatile west African nation over the last week.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast  - French troops in Ivory  Coast's main city of Abidjan fired into the air on Monday to  disperse thousands of demonstrators massing to support the West  African country's President Laurent Gbagbo.
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French peacekeeping troops exchanged  fire with gunmen who attacked them as they traveled in a convoy  of armored vehicles in northern Ivory Coast on Tuesday, a  French army spokesman said.
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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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France is to begin evacuating its nationals from Ivory Coast because of rampant anti-French feelings.
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Angry mobs armed with machetes and clubs hunted foreigners through the streets of Ivory Coast&#39;s main cities yesterday to avenge the destruction of the country&#39;s air force by the French military.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- France was flying in hundreds of extra soldiers to Ivory Coast and the West African nation said it was pulling back its troops following the worst violence seen between France and its former colony in decades.
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French soldiers deployed in Ivory Coast to help evacuate expatriates from violent mob rioting will start pulling back from some positions in the main city Abidjan this week, the Ivorian army said on Sunday.
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Eight French soldiers were killed and 23 wounded when Ivory Coast aircraft attacked French troops deployed in the central rebel stronghold of Bouake, the French defence ministry told AFP.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 9 (IPS) - France is coming under fire for its  heavy-handed  action in destroying virtually the entire air force of its   former colony C- te d'Ivoire in retaliation for the  killings of nine French  soldiers and a U.S. aid worker last  week.
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ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast and France traded jabs Monday over responsibility for last week&#39;s unrest, as the UN Security Council appeared set to impose an arms embargo on the divided west African state.
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Paris - France has chartered several aircraft to evacuate French nationals who wish to leave Ivory Coast and bring in supplies to those who need them, the foreign ministry said in Paris on Tuesday.
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Ivory Coast forces have reinforced security in the economic capital Abidjan in response to rumors of an attack by rebels holding the north of the West African state, a military source said on Sunday.
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French troops killed about 20 people in Ivory Coast during unrest earlier this month, the Defense Ministry in Paris said on Tuesday, as controversy grew over the French military's handling of the crisis.
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Angry mobs in Ivory Coast have burned and looted in the country&#39;s largest city. The machete-wielding residents have also laid siege to French military base and are searching for French families.