French Soldiers Clash with Gunmen in Ivory Coast
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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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Mobs loyal to the Ivory Coast government militias clashed with French peacekeeping troops in Abidjan in the worst violence observers have seen between France and its former colony in decades.
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Ivory Coast warplanes killed nine French soldiers on Saturday in a bombing raid during the fiercest clashes with rebels for 18 months and France hit back by destroying most of the West African country's small ...
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Loud explosions and gunfire rocked  Ivory Coast's capital Yamoussoukro on Saturday and flames could  be seen rising from the presidential palace grounds where  government helicopter gunships are based, witnesses said.
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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 troops clashed with soldiers and angry mobs Saturday after government warplanes killed at least nine French peacekeepers and an American civilian in an airstrike -- mayhem that threatened to draw foreign ...
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French troops clashed with soldiers and angry mobs Saturday after Ivory Coast warplanes killed at least nine French peacekeepers and an American civilian in an airstrike - mayhem that threatened to draw foreign ...
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(SH) - French troops are enforcing an uneasy calm in Ivory Coast, where suddenly much of the population turned against them, treating them as hated occupiers instead of welcome peacekeepers.
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France deployed troops in Ivory Coast's  main city on Sunday to protect its citizens from mob violence  which erupted after French forces destroyed most of the West  African nation's small air force.
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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.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory  Coast fired into the air and French soldiers blasted teargas to  disperse stone-throwing demonstrators in the rebel-held town of  Bouake on Monday, peacekeepers said.
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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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Ivory Coast forces will immediately pull back from front lines, the presidential spokesman said Sunday, after a day of clashes with French peacekeepers that left the West African nation's air force in shreds.
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Hundreds of protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at French gendarmes in a rebel-held Ivory Coast town on Saturday, demanding the former colonial power intervene after government planes bombed rebel positions.
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Hard-liners urged loyalist mobs on to more violence today, after a day of mayhem in which French and Ivory Coast forces battled in the air and on the ground and machete-waving throngs hunted down French citizens in the largest city.
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France sent reinforcements to Ivory Coast and deployed armoured vehicles and helicopter gunships as French troops used tear gas and concussion grenades to quell an explosion of violence in its former West African colony.
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French troops clashed with soldiers and angry mobs Saturday after Ivory Coast warplanes killed at least nine French peacekeepers and an American civilian in an airstrike -- mayhem that threatened to draw ...