Heavy fighting grips Sri Lanka as truce ends
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Heavy fighting between government troops and Tamil Tigers broke out in northern Sri Lanka Thursday, hours after Colombo announced it was pulling out of a tattered ceasefire agreement with the rebels.
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Heavy fighting raged Sunday in northern Sri Lanka where Tamil Tiger rebels said they lost a key leader, as Norwegian-led monitors began pulling out before the formal end of a tattered truce.
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At least 23 people die in a bus bombing in central Sri Lanka, the military says, as the ceasefire in the country ends.
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At least one soldier and &quot;many&quot; Tamil Tiger rebels were killed Saturday in heavy fighting between the two sides in northern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said.
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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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More than 40 rebels and 10 government troops die in fresh fighting in northern Sri Lanka, the military says.
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(The Sri Lankan military corrected its figures on rebel deaths in fighting from 29 to 11. Changes made in headline, first and third paragraphs)    COLOMBO  - Sri Lankan troops killed 11 Tamil Tiger rebels and two soldiers also died in clashes in the north, the military said on Sunday, as stepped-up fighting continues in the latest chapter of a long-running civil war.
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Twenty-four hours of intense fighting across Sri Lanka's north left at least 38 rebels and one soldier dead by early Saturday, the military said, a day ahead of a visit by a Japanese special peace envoy.
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At least two people died and more were wounded in an exchange of artillery fire between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil rebels in the island&#39;s northwest, guerrillas and the defence ministry said on Saturday.
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Sri Lankan security forces clashed with Tamil Tiger separatists and exchanged artillery fire in the north as Norwegian-led monitors began pulling out before a truce runs out, officials said Sunday.
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At least 31 Sri Lankan guerrillas and one soldier were killed in heavy fighting between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels across the embattled north, the defence ministry said.
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Heavy fighting erupts in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region, shattering a two-day ceasefire.
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Sri Lankan troops killed at least 20 Tamil Tigers in heavy fighting near a "border" that separates government and rebel-held terrain in northern Sri Lanka overnight, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
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Sri Lanka's cease-fire deal ended Wednesday in a spasm of violence, as suspected Tamil Tiger rebels bombed a civilian bus, gunned down the fleeing passengers and attacked farmers as they retreated into the bush, killing 31
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Sri Lanka's army claims to have inflicted heavy casualties on Tamil rebels in fighting in the north.
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Sri Lanka's military fought a fierce artillery duel with Tamil Tigers in the island's restive east early on Tuesday, just hours after the rebels said they were resuming their two-decade independence struggle.
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Water flowed down a disputed canal in Sri Lanka after peace broker Norway defused the island's bloodiest battle in four years and averted a return to civil war, residents and officials said.