Eight Lankan planes 'destroyed'
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Sri Lanka's prime minister admits that a Tamil Tiger attack on an air force base caused far more damage than previously acknowledged.
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Twelve people dead and 17 wounded after bomb attack on civilian bus in north-east Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka's navy said on Saturday it   sank 12 Tamil Tiger craft in a pre-dawn naval battle off the   island's northern tip, killing dozens of guerrillas including   suicide fighters, but the rebels dismissed the claim.
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Eight workers were killed and many injured yesterday when a huge steel mesh wall at Dubai airport collapsed, burying labourers under the rubble.
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The Sri Lankan military claims it has killed 26 separatist rebels in four different clashes.
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French forces in Ivory Coast destroyed  two Ivorian warplanes on Saturday after they hit a French  target in the rebel-held town of Bouake, killing eight French  soldiers, a United Nations official said.
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Sri Lankan warplanes on Saturday attacked a camp housing Tamil Tiger rebel suicide bombers in the country's north, the military said.
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Sri Lankan air force fighter jets pounded northern rebel positions on Wednesday as ground troops attacked 35 rebel bunkers, killing at least 10 Tamil Tigers, the military said.
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Four Sri Lankan airmen died in a helicopter crash during a land and air attack by Tamil Tiger rebels on a military base, the defence ministry said Monday.
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Sri Lanka's navy destroys two Tamil Tiger boats and kills at least 12 off the north-eastern coast, defence officials say.
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A military spokesman said that the helicopter suffered engine failure and experienced a sudden loss of power before crashing, killing 8 and wounding 14 passengers.
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Sri Lanka's military says it has killed 59 rebels in the latest fighting - a claim dismissed by the Tamil Tigers.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A building collapse at a construction site at Dubai airport killed more than eight people and injured many more Monday, a contractor 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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Sri Lanka's navy said it destroyed two Tamil Tiger rebel boats Friday as the craft were hauling hundreds of thousands of steel balls often used in bombs. Four rebel fighters were believed killed.
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Sri Lankan air force jets bombed Tamil Tiger territory for a second day on Wednesday, as the government accused Nordic truce monitors and a U.N. envoy of misleading financial donors about military truce violations.
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Fighting between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels killed at least 55 over the weekend, the army says.