New clashes in eastern Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka's defence ministry says soldiers have recovered the bodies of 14 Tamil Tigers after a battle in the east.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a road side bomb in eastern Sri Lanka Sunday, killing three civilians as six more people were killed in separate clashes, police said.
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Colombo: Four people including a top renegade Tamil Tiger rebel were shot dead Thursday in growing factional fighting in Sri Lanka despite efforts to revive the peace process, officials and a pro-rebel website reported.
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COLOMBO: A curfew was slapped on north-eastern Sri Lanka on Friday as pro-government activists clashed with Tiger rebels commemorating 17,800 comrades killed fighting government forces, police said.
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At least six civilians were killed in separate incidents across Sri lanka's embattled northeast, the defence ministry here 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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Tamil rebels in eastern Sri Lanka are blamed for a landmine blast which derailed a train, injuring four people.
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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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Sri Lankan warplanes pounded Tamil Tiger targets in the east on Tuesday and three soldiers were killed in a suspected rebel ambush, the military said.
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Troops stepped up security in eastern Sri Lanka as Tamil Tiger rebels prepared to hold the funeral of a murdered leader, officials said.
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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas claimed to have inflicted heavy casualties against each other in fierce fighting in the country's north.
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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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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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Three Tamil Tiger rebels and a policeman were killed in a clash in eastern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, the military said, minutes before a British minister flew in to the area to visit war refugees and aid workers.
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Recovery efforts were under way in eastern Sri Lanka after overloaded boats carrying refugees from the rebel-held Vakarai region capsized.  At least 13 people are feared drowned, the BBC reported.  Fighting in the area in recent weeks has displaced tens of thousands of people.
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Rebels mounted a fierce offensive Saturday in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna Peninsula, the heart of the island's Tamil minority, military officials and the rebels said amid the heaviest fighting since the two sides signed a 2002 cease-fire.
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Two hand grenades hurled in a clash between Christians and Hindus killed at least three people and wounded 37 in a part of eastern Sri Lanka where international aid workers are helping tsunami victims, police said.