Civilians flee Sri Lanka fighting
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Thousands abandon their homes as fighting between Tamil Tigers and the army worsens in eastern Sri Lanka.
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Tens of thousands of residents fled tsunami-battered coasts in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand after warnings of possible new killer waves yesterday.
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Sri Lanka's army and Tamil rebels say there have been many casualties in clashes in the east.
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Fighting between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels has left 28 soldiers dead and 100 hurt, the army says.
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Aid destined for thousands of people cut off by fighting in eastern Sri Lanka finally begins to arrive.
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The Sri Lankan army says it has moved into Tamil Tiger-held areas in the north, after fighting kills 33 soldiers.
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Sri Lanka's military said on Thursday most of the 27 people killed in a bus ambush were shot by rebels as the passengers tried to flee rather than in the blast that struck the vehicle.
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Thousands of refugees are fleeing Tamil Tiger territory through jungle and by sea in the island's east, the military and witnesses said on Friday, trying to escape artillery duels between the army and rebels.
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KALMADUNAGAR, Sri Lanka  - Thamalin Thirvakumar and her baby son live in a camp for war-displaced in rebel-held north Sri Lanka. Her husband is stuck across an impassable frontier in territory held by the Sri Lankan army.
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Heavy fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday as government troops tried to take Tamil rebel-held territory, the defence ministry said, reporting scores of guerrillas killed or wounded.
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Thousands of residents of coastal Sri Lanka, both in the south and east, began to flee inland again on Thursday, following the news that there were fresh tremors off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands further east.
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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil   Tiger rebels exchanged gunfire and skirmished at sea on Sunday,   bringing to an end a four-day lull in fighting around the   besieged Jaffna peninsula.
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A deadly new chapter in Sri Lanka's   two-decade civil war is putting the lives of thousands of   civilians at risk and derailing efforts to rebuild areas   devastated by the 2004 tsunami, a senior UN envoy said.
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A daylong artillery exchange Saturday between Sri Lanka's military and Tamil Tiger guerrillas in the island's east drove thousands of Sinhalese from their villages, an official said.
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BEIRUT -- More than 150 civilians fled from a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon yesterday as soldiers ringing the neighborhood moved up tanks and armored vehicles for a possible showdown with Islamic militants barricaded inside.
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Police in Sri Lanka force hundreds of minority Tamils out of the capital Colombo for what they say are security reasons.
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Hundreds of minority Tamils evicted from the Sri Lankan capital Colombo arrive in a northern town.