France acted illegally in Ivory Coast attack
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The government of France illegally attacked Ivory Coast and the UN Security Council sanctioned the illegal action with the adoption of Resolution 1572 on Monday, in what appears to be an imperial
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Ivory Coast will take France to the world court for violating bilateral defence accords after French forces destroyed Ivorian military aircraft, an lawyer for the Ivorians told AFP on Sunday.
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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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The French army says it has arrested 12 of its soldiers in Ivory Coast on charges of stealing $120,000 from a bank they were ordered to protect.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- France, the United States, and other nations launched one of the largest evacuations of Africa's postindependence era yesterday, requisitioning commercial jets to fly out thousands of foreigners following attacks on civilians and peacekeeping troops.
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French troops traded fire with gunmen  who attacked them in northern Ivory Coast on Tuesday, the  French army said -- the latest challenge to peacekeepers  shoring up a peace deal in the divided West African country.
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Ivory Coast's army launched its first  land attacks against a rebel-held zone in the north of the  country, France Info radio said on Friday without giving  details.
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French police probe how two illegal immigrants ended up working at a residence used by President Sarkozy.
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LILLE, France, Nov 17  - A French soldiers&#39; advocacy group on Wednesday filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo for an air strike November 6 that killed nine French peacekeepers.
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France acknowledged Tuesday that its troops killed about 20 people, including civilians, during November clashes in Ivory Coast but insisted its soldiers had only acted in self-defense.
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France is to seek a vote in the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo and other bans on the Ivory Coast. The move comes after a ceasefire in the Ivory Coast was broken and nine French soldiers were killed by government bombings.
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Ivory Coast government warplanes and  helicopters attacked the rebel-held north on Friday for the  second day running, former colonial power France said.
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French defense minister Michelle Alliot-Marie addresses reporters on the steps on the defense ministry in Paris Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004, after eight French soldiers were killed and 23 wounded in Ivory Coast
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France deployed troops in the Ivory  Coast's main city on Sunday to protect its citizens from mob  violence which erupted overnight after French forces destroyed  most of the small West African nation's air force.
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FRANCE was on the brink of war with one of its former African colonies last night after planes belonging to the Ivory Coast government bombed peacekeepers in the rebel-held north, killing nine French troops and an American citizen and wounding 23 French
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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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Ivory Coast&#39;s government said on Thursday that soldiers from former colonial power France had shot dead 63 people and injured more than 1,300 during several days of unrest in the world&#39;s top cocoa grower.