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Debate Over Future of Historic Palestinian Village

(Al Jazeera English: 0806 PT, May 11, 2011) The Jerusalem District Court says the lands of Lifta should not be offered for sale to real estate developers, but Israel's Land Authority could act otherwise

 

 

 
 

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More Clashes on Thai-Cambodian Border

(Euronews: 1019 PST, April 26, 2011) Thai and Cambodian troops have exchanged rockets and gunfire near to a sacred temple in South East Asia's bloodiest border dispute in years. At least 13 people are reported dead in the confrontation that has been simmering for the past five days. More than 50,000 people have fled to evacuation shelters as the fighting has spread.

 

 

 
 

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Ouattara to Ask ICC to Probe Ivory Coast Massacres

(Euronews: 0811 PST, April 13, 2011) Ivory Coast's main city is trying to get back to normal but 10 days of fierce fighting for control of Abidjan have left deep scars. The winner in the power struggle - internationally recognised president Alassane Ouattara - said his priority is to restore security and basic services.

 

 

Dramatic Video of Gbagbo Arrest as Troops Storm Ivory Coast Residence

(Russia Today: 0329 PST, April 13, 2011) Video has emerged showing the moment pro-Ouattara forces captured Ivory Coast's strongman Laurent Gbagbo and his wife at the presidential residence in Abidjan. The footage shows fighters loyal to internationally recognised president Alassane Ouattara storming the presidential palace and seizing Gbagbo and his wife. Gbagbo was arrested on Monday and taken to Ouattara's Abidjan headquarters at the Golf Hotel. The UN said on Tuesday that he had been moved but would not say where to.

 

 

 
 

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Cote d'Ivoire: Gbagbo Arrested

(Associated Press: 0906 PST, April 11, 2011) After a week of heavy fighting, forces backing Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognized leader of Cote d'Ivoire, arrested strongman Laurent Gbagbo after he refused to leave the presidency, French diplomats said.

 

 

Gbagbo's Checkered Political Career

(Al Jazeera English: 0846 PST, April 11, 2011) Laurent Gbagbo, the former president of Cote d'Ivoire, has been captured by forces loyal to his rival Alassane Ouattara, the man the international community says won a November presidential election.

 

Al Jazeera's Caroline Malone takes a look at back the political career of a man whose presidency began in much the same chaotic vein as it ended.

 

 

 
 

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Colonial Aftershock of French Strikes in Cote d'Ivoire

(Euronews: 2327 PST, April 5, 2011) "A colonial power even several decades afterwards is always unjustified in pronouncing a judgment on the internal affairs of its former colony - and you know it, and everybody knows it." That statement in January was how French President Nicolas Sarkozy justified France's non-intervention in Tunisia.

 

So what is to be made today of its action in Ivory Coast? What to make of the French helicopters that bombarded the Ivorian presidential palace? Of course, the French intervention is in tune with international law and backed by a UN mandate.

 

 

 
 

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