Rebels and president seek help for death island
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THE President of Sri Lanka and the leader of the countryâs rebel Tamil Tigers have appealed for international assistance after the tsunami left at least 4,300 dead and made up to one million people homeless.
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An American activist tries to save an island paradise, one lecture at a time.
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Former Philippine president Fidel Ramos, who secured a peace deal with Muslim separatist rebels in 1996, called for a truce on Monday to end eight days of clashes on a remote southern island with two groups of militants.
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BOGOTA -- The government of President Alvaro Uribe is being shaken by its most serious political crisis yet, as details emerge about members of Congress who collaborated with right-wing death squads to spread terror and exert political control across Colombia's Caribbean coast.
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U.S. officials held a conference call Sunday to discuss ways to help countries inundated by the Indian Ocean tsunami. A White House statement said aid had begun flowing to Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
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BOGOT&#xC1; -- The Colombian government, the recipient of billions of dollars in US aid to fight drugs and a leftist insurgency, is under siege as evidence mounts of links between right-wing death squads and dozens of officials loyal to President &#xC1;lvaro Uribe.
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Foreign aid agencies  urge the authorities in the devastated Andaman islands to let them join the relief effort.
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Fiji's Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase and his rebellious military commander are to hold an emergency summit as regional powers scramble to avert a coup in the tiny nation, leaders have announced.
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President Bush brought together  former presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton on Monday to  launch an appeal for Americans to make a donation to help  victims of the South Asia quake and tsunamis.
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Victims of a devastating &quot;mud volcano&quot; in Indonesia complained Wednesday that a fresh compensation scheme thrashed out by the president during a visit to the disaster area in East Java was not enough.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- As Indonesia awaits next month&#39;s formal announcement that its new president will be Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the former army general has pledged to seek an end to the bloody separatist war in Aceh province.
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Rival sides in post-election dispute resume talks aimed at ending violent unrest that has claimed the lives of at least 1,000 people
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Deadlocked talks to end nearly 40 years   of Muslim rebellion in the southern Philippines should soon   resume but the region faces risks from clan wars, one of the   biggest aid donors to the region said on Thursday.
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Senior Indonesian officials and  separatist rebels, brought together by the tsunami that ravaged  Aceh province, met for the first time in nearly two years on  Friday to try to forge a deal to end 30 years of war.
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Militants behind attacks on Nigeria's oil infrastructure have asked the United States and President Bush to mediate to try to end a crisis that has seen foreign workers kidnapped and cut output of Africa's biggest producer.
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President Bush pressed Darfur rebel  leader Minni Arcua Minnawi on Tuesday to help implement a deal  aimed at ending the violence in western Sudan, the White House  said.
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The president of Spain's Canary Islands made a desperate appeal Tuesday for more help from European leaders to halt a record-breaking wave of poor Africans seeking to reach his archipelago to gain a toehold in Europe.