French call in reinforcements to fight Ivory Coast government ...
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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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France faced the threat of legal action at the world court following its destruction of Ivorian military aircraft, as an Ivorian police chief said he saw French troops fire directly at unarmed demonstrators at a rally in Abidjan.
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France warns rebels in Chad that it could intervene if they continue to threaten the capital, N'Djamena.
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Ivory Coast is to file suit with the International Court of Justice against the French military which it accuses of killing some 60 Ivorians when it allegedly cracked down on anti-French riots in Abidjan.
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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 forces opened fire Tuesday as protesters massed between the Ivory Coast president&#39;s home and an evacuation post for foreigners.
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ABIDJAN  - Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo called a cabinet meeting after vowing to rebuild his military and attempting to woo back the thousands of foreign nationals who fled a new wave of violence in the divided west African state.
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France has ordered more troops to Ivory  Coast to protect French citizens after nine French soldiers and  a U.S. aid worker were killed in a government bombing raid and  Ivory Coast troops fired on French forces.
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Hundreds of demonstrators faced off with French troops in Abidjan on Monday after state radio urged protesters to form a &quot;human shield&quot; to
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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 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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France frantically called on Arab leaders and Muslim religious leaders Wednesday to help save two journalists kidnapped in Iraq, setting in motion
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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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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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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.
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Ivory Coast&#39;s army said today it had launched an attack on the rebel stronghold of Bouake in the north of the country. &quot;We have been operating in Bouake since this morning.
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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.