Thousands flee Sri Lanka fighting
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Thousands of civilians flee heavy fighting between troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in eastern Sri Lanka.
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Thousands of civilians have fled their homes after clashes in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations' humanitarian arm said on Friday.
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Hundreds of people have fled a village in the southern Philippines after troops stormed a Muslim rebel base, hunting for dozens of prisoners who escaped from jail earlier this month, the rebels and officials said on Monday.
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Thousands of Sri Lankans panicked and fled miles inland on Thursday after hearing reports a new tsunami was on its way.
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MANGANTHODUWA NAWATKUDA, Sri Lanka  - Saundrarajan Kannakai has been displaced by Sri Lanka's civil war over a dozen times in the past 16 years.
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Heavy sea and land battles have erupted in Sri Lanka with the military reporting the recovery of 22 bodies of Tamil rebels after a Norwegian envoy failed to secure a deal to re-launch peace talks.
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Fighting between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels has left 28 soldiers dead and 100 wounded, the army says.
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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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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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Hundreds of tourists are flocking to Colombo for relief and shelter after being evacuated from disaster hit areas across the country.
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Some 3,000 civilians are fleeing as heavy artillery duels in Sri Lanka's restive northeast killed more than 110 people, including 41 civilians, according to rebels and security forces.
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Fierce fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka Monday as government forces mounted a fresh push into territory held by Tiger rebels, with the official death toll from the new clashes at more than 50.
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Thousands of people living on Sri Lanka's tsunami-battered coasts fled inland after comments by a minister triggered fears that more massive waves were about to hit the island.
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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 of Muslims are fleeing their   homes in embattled northeast Sri Lanka for the second time in   as many months but thousands more are stranded, aid workers   said on Sunday, after a suspected rebel front vowed to   recapture the newly resettled area.
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Police in Sri Lanka force hundreds of minority Tamils out of the capital, citing security concerns.
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Thousands of residents of coastal Sri Lanka, both in the south and east, began to flee inland again on Thursday, following the news that there were fresh tremors off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands further east.