Explosions, Gunfire in Ivory Coast Capital
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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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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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ABIDJAN  - Ivory Coast government forces carried out bombing raids of former rebels on the country&#39;s main northern town, Ivory Coast military officials told AFP.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Noah Adams speaks with NPR&#39;s Ofeibea Quist-Arcton about the growing unrest in the Ivory Coast, a former French colony.
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Government warplanes bombed the largest city in Ivory Coast&#39;s rebel-held north twice on Thursday in what a government military commander said was the launch of a new offensive to reunite the war-divided nation.
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Loud explosions rocked Ivory Coast's  main city of Abidjan early on Sunday and heavy gunfire could be  heard as thousands of anti-French demonstrators marched toward  a French military base.
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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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A series  of explosions rock  Iraq's capital as smoke is seen rising above the zone housing US and Iraqi offices.
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Large explosions shook the center of Iraq&#39;s capital late Saturday, only hours after a bomb detonated near a US consular office in southern Iraq, killing one person and wounding another.
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A series of explosions rocked central Baghdad on Friday afternoon during a day of violence in the capital. The cause or exact location of the blasts was not immediately clear.
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Loud explosions rocked Ivory Coast's  main city of Abidjan early on Sunday and heavy gunfire could be  heard.
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Five people are killed and 30 others injured in two bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital, police say.
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Chadian rebels renewed their assault on the capital of this oil-rich central African country Monday, and tens of thousands of people fled as gunfire crackled and artillery shells exploded across the city.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Security forces opened fire yesterday as thousands of angry government loyalists massed outside a French evacuation post for foreigners, reportedly killing seven people and wounding 200 in violence pitting France against its former prize colony.
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Two large blasts were heard in the Saudi  capital Riyadh near the Interior Ministry as well as gun fire,  witnesses said on Wednesday.
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France evacuated hundreds more citizens fleeing violence in Ivory Coast on Thursday as opposition leaders from its former colony gathered in South Africa for talks aimed at rebuilding peace.
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At least six explosions rocked the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, witnesses said, a day after Ugandan peacekeepers started arriving in the lawless Horn of Africa country.