Britons airlifted out of Ivory Coast
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Up to 400 Britons were being evacuated from Ivory Coast to Ghana under military escort last night as the Foreign Office strongly advised all UK nationals to leave the country.
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Between 200 and 300 expatriates were expected to have been flown out of the west African state by tonight after the British army was called in to evacuate them.
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Frightened foreigners kept packing into Ivory Coast&#39;s international airport Saturday to be evacuated home, despite promises by President Laurent Gbagbo&#39;s government to protect them after a surge of anti-Western violence.
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Passengers and non-essential crew were  airlifted off a ferry that had been at risk of capsizing in the  Irish Sea during a storm on Thursday and later ran aground,  coastguards said.
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Many of the Britons clustering at their embassy in Ivory Coast on their way to the airport seemed very scared. Richard Diamond, a software consultant, has been in Ivory Coast for 25 years.
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More than 4,000 foreigners have left Ivory Coast in the recent surge of violence, says France.
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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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Africa News, France on Monday was shutting down one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa - a five-day airlift that flew more than five thousand Westerners and others out of Ivory Coast.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- France concluded one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa yesterday and the UN Security Council imposed an immediate arms embargo against Ivory Coast, stepping up pressure to end the violence that spurred the exodus.
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Rwandan troops were airlifted on Sunday to Sudan's Darfur as the first foreign force there, mandated to protect observers monitoring a cease-fire between the Sudanese government and rebels in the troubled western region.
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Loading worried families onto the last two jumbo jets, France concluded one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa yesterday - an airlift that flew more than 5,000 Westerners away from violence pitting France against its former prize West
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The Foreign Office has chartered a special plane to fly stranded British holidaymakers home from Thailand.
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Around 400 Britons living in Ivory Coast are being told to gather at assembly points, as UK troops prepare to fly them out.
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British troops will be sent to Africa on emergency peacekeeping missions as part of a 10,000-strong European Union force. They will serve as members of &quot;rapidly-deployable
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The bodies of nine French peacekeepers killed in violence in Ivory coast are flown back to France.
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UK forces are to undertake an evacuation of British nationals from the west African state of Ivory Coast. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said a company of the Royal Gurkha Regiment is &quot;pre-positioning&quot; in the
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France is to begin evacuating its nationals from Ivory Coast after days of anti-French demonstrations. The disturbances come in response to France&#39;s destruction of the Ivorian air force, in retaliation for