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...Ivorian government and rebel soldiers moved toward the signing of an unconditional cease-fire after intense negotiations mediated by West African diplomats. The rebels, who hold areas in the north of the Ivory Coast, including the cities of Bouake and Korhogo, have been battling the government of President Laurent Gbagbo since a failed coup on Sept. 19. The fighting has killed hundreds of people, forced thousands from their homes and heightened tensions between the largely Muslim northern regions and the predominantly Christian south. See Also: Cracks in the Ivory NETHERLANDS Guilty Plea Biljana Plavsic, former President of the Serb rump...
...should be welcomed as "brothers." Not anymore. Today Ivorian society is split along ethnic lines and teeters on the edge of civil war. Three weeks ago, a group of disgruntled soldiers mutinied after being demobilized. The revolt quickly turned to open conflict between troops loyal to the government of Laurent Gbagbo - who came to power two years ago in flawed elections from which opposition parties were barred - and rebels allegedly led by General Robert Gue?, who headed a successful 1999 coup, was ousted by Gbagbo in 2000 and shot dead three weeks ago, one of this uprising's early fatalities...
...cause $345 billion of damage to buildings and farmland as global warming took hold, with the London region particularly at risk. IVORY COAST Moral: Don't Leave Home An attempted coup d'état convulsed one of sub-Saharan Africa's richest but most politically fragile countries while President Laurent Gbagbo was in Italy. Loyalist soldiers killed the man accused of leading the uprising, General Robert Guei, the former military ruler who was himself ousted in a 1999 coup. Heavy fighting began in the commercial capital Abidjan before dawn on Thursday and spread to two other main towns, which...
...into the Mediterranean was touted by the U.S. as a way to get the Caspian's rich oil reserves without going through Russia. But there was a hitch: oil companies weren't terribly interested. With prices and demand still growing and U.S.-Russia relations improved, Cambridge Energy Research analyst Laurent Ruseckas says, commercial factors are now driving the $3 billion project. (It began construction last week, sponsored by British Petroleum, Norway's Statoil and others.) While there is still some Russian annoyance at the plan - and heightened tensions with Georgia over Chechen separatists - Ruseckas notes that "the Russians now understand...
...officials expressed disdain for Lienemann's accusations and stressed the urgency of restoring unity and cohesion. But successive speakers also made it evident that the Socialist Party?like the French left in general?is split between market-friendly "modernizers," such as former Economy Ministers Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Laurent Fabius, and harder leftists like former Employment Minister Martine Aubry and party heavyweight Henri Emmanuelli...