Explosions Rock Ivory Coast's Main City Abidjan
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Loud explosions rocked Ivory Coast's  main city of Abidjan early on Sunday and heavy gunfire could be  heard as thousands of anti-French demonstrators marched toward  a French military base.
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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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Loyalist throngs of thousands ruled the streets of Abidjan, setting up roadblocks of burning tires across the city.
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ABIDJAN  - Ivory Coast government forces carried out bombing raids of former rebels on the country&#39;s main northern town, Ivory Coast military officials told AFP.
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Foreign residents in Abidjan were subjected to at least &quot;37 serious atrocities including three or four attested rapes,&quot; a French representative in Ivory Coast, Catherine Rechenmann, said.
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Ivory Coast's military killed nine French soldiers in a bombing raid on the rebel stronghold of Bouake on Saturday and opened fire on troops from the former colonial power in the main city of Abidjan.
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Foreign residents in Abidjan were subjected to at least &quot;37 serious atrocities including three or four confirmed rapes,&quot; a representative of French expatriates in Ivory Coast said Friday.
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ELEANOR HALL: Hundreds of French reinforcements have been sent to stop escalating violence in Ivory Coast. On the weekend, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the commercial capital Abidjan to
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast  - French troops in Ivory  Coast's main city of Abidjan fired into the air on Monday to  disperse thousands of demonstrators massing to support the West  African country's President Laurent Gbagbo.
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Strong explosions shook central Baghdad early Sunday, and fighting erupted on a major street in the heart of the city near the U.S.-guarded Green Zone.
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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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Several explosions went off in the Iraqi Oil Ministry compound in central Baghdad on Saturday and witnesses said the explosions were probably caused by a mortar attack.
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Youths angered by the dumping of toxic waste in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, beat up the transport minister.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast Nov 4, 2004 - Government warplanes bombed the leading city in Ivory Coast&#39;s rebel-held north Thursday in what an Ivory Coast commander said was the relaunch of a full-scale government offensive.
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N'DJAMENA  - Heavy weapons fire erupted on Sunday around the presidential palace in the Chadian capital N'Djamena where rebels forces have surrounded President Idriss Deby and loyalist troops, residents said.
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France sent 600 more troops to Ivory Coast's commercial capital, Abijan, as mobs rampaged against French expatriates.
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France, the United Nations and foreign embassies are starting to evacuate foreigners from Ivory Coast where five days of mob violence and protests have gutted the commercial capital, Abidjan.