French End Hiding of Explosives in Luggage
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French police on Sunday ended their practice of hiding plastic explosives in air passengers' luggage to train bomb-sniffing dogs after one such bag got lost, possibly ending up on a flight out of Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- France concluded one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa yesterday and the UN Security Council imposed an immediate arms embargo against Ivory Coast, stepping up pressure to end the violence that spurred the exodus.
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Britain eased a ban on airline cabin  baggage on Monday and scaled down a security alert imposed last  week after police said they had foiled a plot to blow up  airliners, but delays and cancellations at airports continued.
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CHERBOURG, France  - A heavily guarded ship  carrying a large shipment of U.S. weapons-grade plutonium  docked in the French port of Cherbourg on Wednesday, defying  protesters who say the shipment is vulnerable to terrorist  attack.
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France's military said on Thursday it had  transported munitions to the Chadian government army, which  repelled a rebel attack on the capital N'Djamena this month.
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LILLE, France, Dec 6  - A disgruntled French soldier who had barricaded himself in an explosives depot and threatened to blow it up gave himself up to the authorities early on Monday, gendarmes said.
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French police arrested 17 people and discovered a cache of heavy weapons during raids targeting suspected members of Spain's armed Basque separatist group ETA based in southwestern France, officials said.
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A France-bound parcel filled with hundreds of dried beetles and spiders &#151; including endangered species &#151; was confiscated Monday at Thailand's main international airport, police said.
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France's military said on Thursday it had transported munitions to the Chadian government army, which repelled a rebel attack on the capital N'Djamena this month.
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A gun found in a carry-on bag at a   security checkpoint at Baltimore-Washington International   Airport prompted authorities to shut two terminals on Friday, a   security official said.
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French Interior Minister Dominique deVillepin announced Friday that France is to reinforce security in sensible places, especially around embassies after the explosion near the Indonesian embassy in Paris.
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Working under tight security from helicopters and police, port crews unloaded US military plutonium from a British ship on Wednesday after its arrival in northwest France, nuclear industry officials said.
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CHERBOURG, France  - A shipment of 308 pounds of  U.S. weapons-grade plutonium arrived in the French port of  Cherbourg Wednesday, despite protests by anti-nuclear  campaigners who fear it is vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
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A lorry suspected to be carrying a shipment of plutonium from US weapons arsenals, to be reprocessed in southeast France, left a retreatment plant in the country's north under heavy escort, a French television journalist at the scene said.
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A French soldier who had locked himself in an explosives depot and threatened to blow it up turned himself in Monday, the Interior Ministry said, ending a three-day standoff that prompted the evacuation of hundreds of villagers in northeastern France.
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PARIS  - French police arrested 17 people and discovered a cache of heavy weapons during raids in southwestern France that targeted suspected members of Spain&#39;s armed Basque separatist group ETA, officials said.
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PARIS -- French police yesterday ended their practice of hiding plastic explosives inside air passengers' luggage to train bomb-sniffing dogs after one such bag got lost, possibly ending up on a flight out of Charles de Gaulle airport.