Sri Lanka defuses suspected rebel bomb near pageant
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Sri Lankan security forces defused three suspected Tamil Tiger rebel bombs on Sunday, including one in the ancient central hill capital of Kandy where thousands of people are attending a Buddhist pageant.
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Sri Lanka's air force bombed separatist rebel positions in the embattled north on Wednesday, a day after the insurgents agreed to peace talks with the government.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s military claimed Wednesday it had captured the last Tamil Tiger rebel stronghold in the island&#39;s east following months of fighting, as peace broker Norway tried to revive a tattered truce.
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A roadside bomb attack blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels tore through a civilian bus in northeastern Sri Lanka on Monday, killing 12 people and injuring 17, the military said
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Sri Lanka's military said on Saturday troops captured rebel positions in the island's northwest killing 20 rebels, while rebels said they had killed 20 soldiers in the latest clashes in the civil war.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed 13 people with two roadside bombs on Monday, just hours after the government celebrated the island's 60th anniversary of independence with a parade of military might in the capital.
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A bomb ripped through a packed civilian bus Wednesday, killing 23 people in southeastern Sri Lanka as the government officially withdrew from a tattered cease-fire with Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels bombed a civilian bus in north-east Sri Lanka on Monday, killing at least 12 people, the military said.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels attacked a police commando truck with a roadside bomb on Monday near the capital Colombo, wounding 20 civilians and four troops, the military said.
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A roadside bomb tore through a Sri Lankan bus killing 24 people and wounding dozens on Wednesday, officials said, as a six-year ceasefire between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels formally expires.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a powerful roadside bomb in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Wednesday, killing five people and wounding 28 others, police and hospital officials said.
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A roadside bomb attack blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels tore through a civilian bus in northeastern Sri Lanka on Monday, killing 12 people and injuring 17, the military said.
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HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka  - Politics got in the way  of tsunami relief efforts on Saturday with Sri Lanka stopping  U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan from visiting disaster areas  controlled by its rebel foes.
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Security forces and police stepped up security in the Sri Lankan capital on Tuesday after suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a roadside bomb killing seven civilians, officials said.
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Bodyguards whisked Sri Lanka&#39;s prime minister away from a meeting with ethnic-Tamil tsunami quake victims Thursday after some victims hit journalists and a soldier with wooden poles.
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A bomb tore through a packed civilian bus Wednesday in southeastern Sri Lanka, killing 23 people and wounding 67 others
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A powerful roadside bomb killed at least 10 civilians and wounded several others in northeastern Sri Lanka, the day's second attack against a bus on the island, a military official said.