Ivory Coast Protesters Face French Troops
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast  - Hundreds of demonstrators  faced off with French troops in Abidjan on Monday after state  radio urged protesters to form a "human shield" to protect the  house of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo.
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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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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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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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(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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Supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo say he is under attack by France to resign, but they will defend him. Protests against French interests continue one day after French troops neutralized
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More French citizens prepared to quit  their former colony Ivory Coast on Thursday as African leaders  strived to stem the chaotic violence in the country which  threatens to plunge West Africa into turmoil.
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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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After suffering its biggest casualties since its peacekeeping operation began in Ivory Coast two years ago, France is stepping up pressure on Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo to cease all military action.
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ABIDJAN  - Top Ivory Coast and French officials appealed for calm, pledging to cooperate to put down a wave of unrest that left at least 13 dead and hundreds injured in the divided west African state.
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French and Ivory Coast military commanders appealed for calm Monday in Abidjan, as government supporters, whipped into a frenzy by reports that French tanks were
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France sought on Monday to reassure thousands of angry Ivorian demonstrators that it was not trying to topple President Laurent Gbagbo, after a weekend of mob violence forced more than 2,000 foreigners to flee ...
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United Nations: France on Monday pressed the UN Security Council to slap an arms embargo on Ivory Coast amid an upsurge of violence in the west African nation but ran into reluctance from China, diplomats said.
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A summit of French-speaking nations is to focus on the civil war in Ivory Coast which resumed three weeks ago, ministers say. The Francophone summit in Burkina Faso is due to consider a motion condemning the actions of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo.
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Around 400 Britons living in Ivory Coast are being told to gather at assembly points, ready to be flown from the violence in the west African state.
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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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A French soldier walks past signs at the nearly empty check-in area of the Abidjan, Ivory Coast, airport on Monday, Nov. 15, 2004.