Ivory Coast to take France to world court over destruction of planes
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Ivory Coast will take France to the world court for violating bilateral defence accords after French forces destroyed Ivorian military aircraft, an lawyer for the Ivorians told AFP on Sunday.
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Defense lawyers for six French aid workers to be tried Friday on charges of kidnapping dozens of African children said they would rely on international law to argue for acquittal.
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French troops in Ivory Coast have been accused of over-reacting and killing up to 30 unarmed civilians in retaliation for the killing of nine French peacekeepers.
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A court in Chad has set December 21  as the date for the start of the trial of six French  humanitarian workers accused of trying to smuggle 103 African  children to Europe, lawyers said on Thursday.
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KIGALI, Rwanda, Nov. 23 -- Thousands of Rwandans demonstrated Thursday against a French judge's call for President Paul Kagame to face a U.N. court over allegations that he orchestrated a 1994 plane crash that killed the country's leader and unleashed a genocide.
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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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NEW YORK: Ivory Coast, accusing France of human rights violations, demanded yesterday the formation of an international commission to investigate the purported shooting by French troops into a crowd of unarmed demonstrators in the city of Abidjan.
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ABIDJAN, Cote D&#39;Ivoire (Ivory Coast) -- France began evacuating its nationals and other Europeans from violence-torn Ivory Coast Wednesday, when an Air France Boeing-777 took off from Abidjan airport for Paris with 270 people on board, French military
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The first trial in France over a major environmental disaster will open on Monday  to decide whether oil giant Total and other parties bear responsibility for the massive oil spill from the Erika shipwreck in 1999.
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FRANCE was on the brink of war with one of its former African colonies last night after planes belonging to the Ivory Coast government bombed peacekeepers in the rebel-held north, killing nine French troops and an American citizen and wounding 23 French
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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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A top French judge has called for Rwandan President Paul Kagame to be brought before a U.N. court over a 1994 plane crash that killed the country's president and sparked a genocide, a judicial source said on Tuesday.
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The French military has set up a forward base in Togo to allow it to have aircraft within easy reach of Ivory Coast, which saw a sudden escalation in its two-year-old civil war last week, officials said here ...
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame denounced  as "bullying and arrogant" a French judge's call for him to  face a U.N. court over a 1994 plane crash that killed the  country's leader and sparked a genocide of 800,000 people.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 9 (IPS) - France is coming under fire for its  heavy-handed  action in destroying virtually the entire air force of its   former colony C- te d'Ivoire in retaliation for the  killings of nine French  soldiers and a U.S. aid worker last  week.
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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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French troop reinforcements flew to the coastal city of Abidjan in riot-torn Ivory Coast yesterday amid rising concerns that the conflict between