Martial law grips Guinea, U.S. plans flight out
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Guinea's military enforced draconian martial law measures across the West African state on Tuesday, quashing protests and arresting curfew-breakers to halt a widening revolt against President Lansana Conte's rule.
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Lawmakers refused to extend martial law in Guinea, unanimously rejecting the request by their long-ruling president.
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Security is tightened around Guinea's presidential palace after a reported a shooting incident.
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President Alejandro Toledo declared a state of emergency in a remote highland province late Saturday after gunmen demanding his resignation seized control of a police station there and took several officers hostage, authorities said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Iraq's interim Prime Minister  Iyad Allawi declared martial law on Sunday and said a U.S.-led  military offensive against the rebel-held city of Falluja could  not be delayed much longer.
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The A-9 connects government and rebel territory. The government closed it Aug. 12 due to fighting.
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Faced with a surge in deadly guerrilla attacks, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi declared martial law across most of the country today as American and Iraqi troops made final
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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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Soldiers who staged a mutiny last week in Guinea-Bissau have agreed to return to their barracks after striking a deal with the government to end a five-day standoff in the West African country.
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WASHINGTON -- At the United Nations lectern this week, President Bush hailed the spread of democracy. ``From Beirut to Baghdad," he said, ``people are making the choice for freedom." Yet even as he spoke, tanks were rolling through the streets of Bangkok as a military coup toppled the elected leader of Thailand, who at that moment was in New York ...
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BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau - Hundreds of mutinous soldiers demanding pay for peacekeeping duty abroad seized key buildings in the capital of Guinea-Bissau on Wednesday and patrolled the potholed streets in trucks with mounted machine guns.
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Security forces in Guinea make several arrests after the attempt to kill President Lansana Conte.
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afrol News, 7 October - Relative calm has returned to Guinea-Bissau after yesterday&#39;s mutiny, in which Army Chief VerÃ­ssimo Correia Seabra allegedly was killed.
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Violent unrest in Guinea spread to a military headquarters housing an elite army unit as another day of clashes in the west African nation claimed a further 11 lives.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- France, the United States, and other nations launched one of the largest evacuations of Africa's postindependence era yesterday, requisitioning commercial jets to fly out thousands of foreigners following attacks on civilians and peacekeeping troops.
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Â· Government ordered to give reason for crackdownÂ· President awaits key court ruling on re-election bid
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DILI, East Timor, March 5 -- East Timor's president invoked emergency powers on Monday to quell unrest after hundreds of young men demanding a withdrawal of foreign troops blockaded roads with burning tires and concrete blocks. The United States issued a travel warning, and Australia said it would...