French attack sparks riots in Ivory Coast
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Angry mobs armed with machetes and clubs hunted foreigners through the streets of Ivory Coast&#39;s main cities yesterday to avenge the destruction of the country&#39;s air force by the French military.
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YAMOUSSOUKRO: Loud explosions and gunfire rocked Ivory Coast&#39;s capital Yamoussoukro early this morning and flames could be seen rising from the presidential palace grounds where government helicopter gunships are based, witnesses said.
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French troops traded fire with gunmen  who attacked them in northern Ivory Coast on Tuesday, the  French army said -- the latest challenge to peacekeepers  shoring up a peace deal in the divided West African country.
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French forces wiped out Ivory Coast&#39;s military aircraft in retaliation for the killing of nine of its soldiers stationed here, as anti-French feeling reach boiling point in the west African former French colony.
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France faced the threat of legal action at the world court following its destruction of Ivorian military aircraft, as an Ivorian police chief said he saw French troops fire directly at unarmed demonstrators at a rally in Abidjan.
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Gunfire killed at least 10 and wounded hundreds in a clash involving French troops, protesters and local security forces in Ivory Coast on Tuesday, the fourth straight day of chaotic violence in the West African country.
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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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Ivory Coast is to file suit with the International Court of Justice against the French military which it accuses of killing some 60 Ivorians when it allegedly cracked down on anti-French riots in Abidjan.
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Machete-waving mobs looted and burned in Ivory Coast's largest cities Sunday, laying siege to a French military base and searching house to house for French families after a day of ground and air clashes ...
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo appealed for an end to the anti-French violence which erupted after France destroyed most of the country's air force in retaliation for the killing of nine French ...
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France sent hundreds more troops to the Ivory Coast commercial capital of Abidjan on Sunday, as government loyalists went on a violent rampage taking aim at the
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo  appealed for an end to the anti-French violence which erupted  after France destroyed most of the country's air force in  retaliation for the killing of nine French peacekeepers.
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Hundreds of French citizens fled their  former colony Ivory Coast on Wednesday after days of  anti-French riots and looting in a country once seen as a model  for Africa of post-independence prosperity.
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Supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo say the war in Ivory Coast is now against both rebels and France, after French forces destroyed most Ivorian military aircraft and army weapons.
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Hundreds of protesters in the Ivory Coast commercial capital, Abidjan, have gone on a rampage, after the military resumed attacks on rebel positions ending months of stalled peace negotiations.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- France was flying in hundreds of extra soldiers to Ivory Coast and the West African nation said it was pulling back its troops following the worst violence seen between France and its former colony in decades.
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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 ...