Air raid, ambush as Japan envoy visits Sri Lanka
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Suspected Tamil Tigers killed four people with a roadside bomb in northern Sri Lanka on Monday while government planes bombed a rebel base, the military said, as a Japanese envoy sought to revive a collapsed peace process.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed a Sri Lankan minister with a roadside bomb north of the capital on Tuesday, officials said, the second MP killed in a week as a protracted civil war escalates.
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Sri Lanka's armed forces launched airstrikes and fired artillery as they advanced Monday on a strategic Tamil Tiger-held enclave, killing at least 28 people, the military and rebels said.
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A Sri Lankan government minister was killed Tuesday in a roadside bombing near the capital that was blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels, the military said. Seven other people were wounded.
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The Japanese peace envoy to Sri Lanka says that the end of the ceasefire may make it necessary to review Japanese aid.
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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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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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A Tamil Tiger assault on a strategic naval base in northern Sri Lanka was part of an attempt to re-capture their former bastion on the Jaffna peninsula, a state-run daily reported Friday.
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Three rebels, a policeman and a security guard were killed in Sri Lanka's restive eastern province as Britain's junior foreign minister Kim Howells toured projects in the area funded by the former colonial power.
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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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The Sri Lankan military says it has carried out an air raid on a Tamil Tiger "rebel training camp" in the north.
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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.
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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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Ambassadors from Germany, Italy and the US were wounded in Sri Lanka's shell attack Tuesday, while three others from France, Japan and the European Union escaped unhurt, officials said.
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Security forces and police stepped up security in the Sri Lankan capital on Tuesday after suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a roadside bomb killing seven civilians, officials said.
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The Italian and U.S. Ambassadors to Sri Lanka were slightly injured on Tuesday when Tamil Tiger rebels shelled a delegation of diplomats led by the island's human rights minister, officials said.
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A Sri Lankan government minister was killed in a powerful roadside bomb attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels, followed hours later by a powerful blast in the heart of the capital Colombo, police said.