Sri Lanka attack raises tension
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Members of the Sinhala and Tamil communities have clashed again in eastern Sri Lanka after a grenade attack on a bus left one person dead.
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A rebel attack on an air base this week caused far more damage than previously acknowledged, destroying eight aircraft, including a vital surveillance plane, Sri Lanka's prime minister said Wednesday.
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Death of opposition leader raises fears of expanded violence in the unstable South Asian nation.
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Sri Lanka&#039;s air force pounded Tamil Tiger rebel positions for a second day Friday in retaliation for a bus bombing that killed 64 people in the worst violence since a 2002 truce, a senior insurgent leader said.
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Colombo: Sri Lanka&#39;s president and top aides were Monday studying the latest Tamil Tiger threat to return to their protracted war amid mounting tension in embattled regions, officials said.
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Troops and Tamil Tigers fought fierce battles in northern Sri Lanka, leaving scores killed, officials said as the rebels accused Colombo of ignoring moves by Norway to end the latest bloodshed.
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South Africa have pulled out of the limited-overs tri-series against India and hosts Sri Lanka due to security concerns after a deadly bombing, a Sri Lankan cricket official said.
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Sri Lankan security forces are on red alert, officials said, as Tamil Tiger rebels remembered 18,742 comrades killed in their decades-long campaign for a separate homeland.
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Sri Lanka's military on Friday accused Tamil Tiger rebels of murdering nine civilians in the island's south as violence between the two sides escalated after the formal end of a ceasefire.
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The killing of a top Tamil Tiger rebel political leader raises fears that Sri Lanka could return to civil war.
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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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Sri Lanka's government said on Tuesday  more than 18,700 people are confirmed dead two days after a  tsunami battered the island and officials fear the toll will  hit 25,000.
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Government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels were locked in heavy combat in northern Sri Lanka Saturday night, as the military bombed rebel positions elsewhere, official sources said.
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Twenty people were killed and many others injured in a suspected Tamil Tiger bomb attack on a crowded bus in southwest Sri Lanka, officials said.
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A bomb blast near the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, leaves at least five people dead, reports say.
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Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka have killed four people, including a leader of a renegade guerilla faction, in growing factional violence that is threatening the country&#39;s fragile cease-fire.
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At least eight people die in a suspected suicide attack on the main railway station in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo.