France, Ivory Coast relations worsen
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Nine French peacekeepers were killed during an air raid by Ivorian bombers more than a week ago. France responded by destroying most of the Ivorian air force.
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Foreign troops start arriving in Ivory Coast to assist with mass evacuations of foreigners while Ivorians slowly start to return to daily life amid ongoing mob riots and anti-French protests.
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France evacuated hundreds more citizens  fleeing violence in Ivory Coast on Thursday as opposition  leaders from its former colony gathered in South Africa for  talks aimed at rebuilding peace.
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PARIS One week after a fragile calm returned to Ivory Coast, the country&#39;s business life remains in shambles, with many foreign chief executives out of the country and no prospect of their immediate return.
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France's foreign minister warned Monday against a "permanent repentance" for colonialism and said his country should invest more in oil-rich former colony Algeria.
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France evacuated hundreds more citizens fleeing violence in Ivory Coast on Thursday as opposition leaders from its former colony gathered in South Africa for talks aimed at rebuilding peace.
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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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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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French citizens queued at Ivory Coast's  main airport on Wednesday to flee their former West African  colony as violent anti-French protesters massed for a fifth day  in support of President Laurent Gbagbo.
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INSTABILITY is a way of life in West Africa, and Ivory Coast is the latest tragic example. A 2-year-old cease-fire, brokered by France, between Muslim rebels and the government of President Laurent Gbagbo
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ABIDJAN, Cote D&#39;Ivoire (Ivory Coast) -- France began evacuating its nationals and other Europeans from violence-torn Ivory Coast Wednesday, when an Air France Boeing-777 took off from Abidjan airport for Paris with 270 people on board, French military
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The death of a hard-core soccer fan has set off soul-searching and finger-pointing as France confronts the violence and hate that have poisoned the sport.
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Ivory Coast&#39;s embattled leader sounded one of the first conciliatory notes Tuesday in his West African nation&#39;s devastating confrontation with its former colonial
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Hundreds of French citizens fled their former colony Ivory Coast on Wednesday after days of anti-French riots and looting in a country once seen as a model for Africa of post-independence prosperity.
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France, the United Nations and foreign embassies are starting to evacuate foreigners from Ivory Coast where five days of mob violence and protests have gutted the commercial capital, Abidjan.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo accuses France of supporting rebels in the country's renewed civil war.
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French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie warned Monday that without the stabilizing presence of foreign peacekeepers, the Ivory Coast risked erupting into bloodshed akin to