Ivory Coast loyalists in standoff
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Thousands of government loyalists massed outside the home of the president yesterday, facing off against French armored vehicles in response to urgent appeals for a ''human shield&quot; around the hard-line leader, amid fears of an overthrow.
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African leaders backed an arms embargo and other immediate U.N. sanctions against Ivory Coast on Sunday, isolating President Laurent Gbagbo's hard-line government even further in its deadly confrontation with ...
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Foreign Ministry officials are considering recalling diplomatic personnel now in the Ivory Coast capital of Abidjan due to increasing anti-French violence and widespread rioting and looting.
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French troops killed about 20 people in Ivory Coast during unrest earlier this month, the Defense Ministry in Paris said on Tuesday, as controversy grew over the French military's handling of the crisis.
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French peacekeeping troops exchanged  fire with gunmen who attacked them as they traveled in a convoy  of armored vehicles in northern Ivory Coast on Tuesday, French  officials said.
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ABIDJAN: An exodus from Ivory Coast began yesterday with a first planeload of French nationals while thousands of Ivorians fled to escape a week of deadly violence, amid new tensions that sent thousands into Abidjan&#39;s streets.
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Ivory Coast's political leaders fail to agree on how to end the country's political deadlock.
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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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French troop reinforcements flew to the coastal city of Abidjan in riot-torn Ivory Coast yesterday amid rising concerns that the conflict between
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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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(SH) - French troops are enforcing an uneasy calm in Ivory Coast, where suddenly much of the population turned against them, treating them as hated occupiers instead of welcome peacekeepers.
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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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French military reinforcements deployed in Ivory Coast&#39;s economic capital Abidjan on Sunday following a night of anti-French rampages and the deaths of nine of their compatriots in an air strike.
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French troops killed about 20 people in  Ivory Coast during unrest earlier this month, the Defense  Ministry in Paris said on Tuesday, as controversy grew over the  French military's handling of the crisis.
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Supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo say he is under attack by France to resign, but they will defend him. Protests against French interests continue one day after French troops neutralized
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French citizens queued at Ivory Coast's main airport on Wednesday to flee their former West African colony as violent anti-French protesters massed for a fifth day in support of President Laurent Gbagbo.
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Around 400 Britons living in Ivory Coast are being told to gather at assembly points, ready to be flown from the violence in the west African state.