Ivory Coast military chief sacked
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The president of Ivory Coast sacks his army chief of staff, amid escalating tension  in the West African country.
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The director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, a critical government agency that issues hurricane and tropical storm forecasts, was ousted on Monday after a staff mutiny.
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President Laurent Gbagbo has named a hard-liner as army chief of staff, prompting diplomats to warn Sunday of a possible resumption of hostilities against the rebel-held north of the Ivory Coast.
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The head of the armed forces and the army spokesman in Guinea-Bissau have been killed during an army mutiny. The soldiers were apparently revolting over unpaid wages for peacekeeping duties in Liberia.
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BEIJING, Sept. 25 -- The Communist Party chief of Shanghai was fired Monday in the highest-level purge of a Chinese official in more than a decade. Analysts called the dismissal a move by President Hu Jintao to root out corruption and consolidate his own power.
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Burmaâs secretive military regime has sacked its prime minister, seen as a relative pragmatist, and replaced him with a general who has taken a hard line in dealing with the countryâs pro-democracy movement.
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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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MYANMAR&#39;S military junta yesterday dismissed the Foreign Minister and his deputy in an unexpected Cabinet reshuffle that saw two other ministers also fired.
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Soldiers recently back from a U.N. peacekeeping mission and angry over unpaid wages staged a revolt in this tiny, impoverished West African nation Wednesday, killing the armed forces chief of staff and another senior officer, officials said.
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The Burmese junta has sacked Prime Minister Khin Nyunt and arrested him on corruption charges after a purge of the military intelligence headquarters in Rangoon.
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Mexican President Vicente Fox sacks the capital's police chief over a mob attack that killed two officers.
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Shanghai's Communist Party boss is sacked for graft in the highest-profile downfall in a decade, state media reports.
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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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South Africa's ruling African National Congress has sacked its chief whip after finding him guilty of sexual harassment.
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ABIDJAN - The UN secretary generalâs special envoy to Ivory Coast, Albert Tevoedjre, has resigned, UN officials announced here Monday.
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Myanmar&#39;s tough but pragmatic prime minister was sacked Tuesday by his hardline army colleagues, clouding prospects for the freedom of opposition leader Aung San
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Sudan has expelled the top official in Sudan of the U.S.-based aid group CARE, the director said on Monday.