Ambassadors hurt in east Sri Lanka by rebel shells
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The Italian and U.S. ambassadors to Sri Lanka were slightly hurt on Tuesday when Tamil Tiger rebels shelled a delegation of diplomats led by the island's human rights minister to the restive east, officials said.
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At least 52 people have been killed in Sri Lanka as heavy sea and land battles erupted while Tamil Tiger rebels warned that the island would plunge in a &amp;quot;fatal war&amp;quot; if the military kept up air strikes.
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The Indian Ocean tsunami which battered Sri Lanka has opened up a window of opportunity for a renewal of dialogue between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels but has also exposed the tensions that exist between the two sides.
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The Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers say that fighting on Thursday has left more than 30 dead.
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Sri Lanka expressed concern over truce violations by Tiger rebels as a top Norwegian envoy prepared to return home empty-handed after failing to end the island's talks deadlock, officials said.
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Representatives of Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tigers rebels, mortal enemies, are working together to help tsunami victims.
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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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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has voiced concern about the safety of aid workers in Sri Lanka after the murder of two Red Cross volunteers, his office said, as Japan's peace envoy began a visit to the war-battered island.
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An airstrike last month wounded the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels' reclusive leader, the Sri Lankan military said Wednesday. The rebels made no immediate comment on the claim.
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: A renegade leader of the Tamil Tigers has been killed in a firefight in Sri Lankaâs restive east, the rebel group said today, the latest in a rash of killings marring a truce that halted two decades of civil war.
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The Sri Lankan president blames the Tamil Tigers for the killing of the senior official in the east of the island.
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The Sri Lankan military says at least 30 Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed in fierce fighting in the country's east.
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Sri Lanka said on Monday deaths in the Indian Ocean island&#39;s rebel-controlled north and east had raised the toll from the worst tsunami in memory to around 4,500 victims.
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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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A bomb blast in the Sri Lankan capital on Friday slightly injured President Mahinda Rajapakse's brother, who is also the country's defense secretary, in what witnesses said appeared to be a rebel suicide bombing.
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Sri Lanka's military fought mortar and artillery duels with Tamil Tigers in the island's north and east on Friday as the rebels warned of low expectations at peace talks due later this month.
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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has voiced deep concern about the safety of aid workers in Sri Lanka after the murder of two Red Cross volunteers, his office said, as Japan's peace envoy flew to the war-battered island.