Ivory Coast air strikes kill
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In a swift and alarming deepening of the war in Ivory Coast, air strikes by two government attack jets killed nine French peacekeepers and a US civilian
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Supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo say the war in Ivory Coast is now against both rebels and France, after French forces destroyed most Ivorian military aircraft and army weapons.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo  appealed for an end to the anti-French violence which erupted  after France destroyed most of the country's air force in  retaliation for the killing of nine French peacekeepers.
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ABIDJAN  - Two Ivory Coast military aircraft carried out a second raid on Bouake, the stronghold of the former rebel New Forces (FN) in the divided west African country, a French military source told AFP.
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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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ABIDJAN - Three days of air strikes on former rebels in northern Ivory Coast have left 11 people dead and around 100 seriously wounded, a spokesman for the ex-rebel New Forces told AFP on Saturday.
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ABIDJAN, Nov 6  - The Ivory Coast government carried out a devastating air raid on a French army camp Saturday killing eight soldiers, prompting French President Jacques Chirac to order the destruction of all government planes involved in ceasefire
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France acknowledges that its troops in Ivory Coast killed about 20 people during anti-French protests.
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The French television network TP1 reported that Israeli mercenaries were instrumental in an air attack ten days ago in the Ivory Coast in which nine French peacekeepers and one American aid worker were killed.
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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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Ivory Coast&#39;s armed forces bombed the rebel stronghold of Bouake on Thursday in the first major outbreak of hostilities in the world&#39;s top cocoa grower since a truce more than a year ago.
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Ivory Coast warplanes bombed the largest city of the rebel-held north in wave after wave of attacks Thursday, breaking a more than year-old cease-fire in the civil
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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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Ivory Coast on Sunday ordered a  pullback from an offensive on the rebel-held north after France  destroyed its airpower in a retaliatory strike which sparked  mob attacks on French citizens and property.
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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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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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President Laurent Gbagbo appealed for  an end to anti-French crowd violence which erupted after France  destroyed most of Ivory Coast's small air force in retaliation  for the killing of nine French peacekeepers.