Air raids, bombs despite Sri Lanka peace talk vows
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Sri Lanka's Air Force bombed Tamil Tiger bases for a third day on Thursday, and suspected rebels clashed with government soldiers, after the foes agreed to crunch talks aimed at halting renewed civil war.
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COLOMBO : Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger guerrillas declared they will renew armed struggle unless the Colombo government immediately agrees to revive peace talks based on a rebel blueprint for self-rule.
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Sri Lankan security forces defused three suspected Tamil Tiger rebel bombs on Sunday, including one in the ancient central hill capital of Kandy.
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VAKARAI, Sri Lanka  - Surveying a newly captured eastern rebel stronghold, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Saturday vowed to tame the Tamil Tiger rebels and liberate civilians, but said the door remained open to resume peace talks.
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A wave of pitched battles, bombings and an airstrike killed at least 34 people across northern Sri Lanka, the military said Monday, as a Japanese envoy met with officials to try to stop the raging civil war.
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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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Sri Lanka's foreign minister said on Sunday the government is not planning to scrap a 2002 ceasefire pact with the Tamil Tigers, and was willing to meet with the Tigers for talks as soon as possible.
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President reiterates vow to crush rebel Tamil Tigers as he marks island's 60th anniversary of independence
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Sri Lanka braced for more violence as suspected Tamil rebels set off bomb attacks in the capital on the eve of celebrations to mark independence day, officials said Sunday.
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Norway's effort to end Sri Lanka's civil war is not dead, despite increased violence and a lack of progress in bringing the government and Tamil Tiger rebels to the negotiating table, the nation's foreign minister said Thursday.
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The Tamil Tigers' nascent air wing dropped two bombs on an air force base in north Sri Lanka before dawn on Monday, the military said, the latest daring air assault amid renewed civil war.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger guerrillas have declared they will renew their armed struggle unless the government immediately agrees to revive peace talks based on a controversial rebel blueprint for self-rule.
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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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Heavy artillery exchanges rocked northern Sri Lanka as the European Union, after banning the Tamil Tigers earlier in the week, promised further action to push the rebels and the government back to the negotiating table.
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Sri Lanka has agreed to hold crunch peace talks with the Tamil Tigers in Geneva on October 28-30, the government said on Wednesday, amid efforts to halt a new chapter in the island's two-decade civil war.
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Sri Lanka's military says it has used fighter jets to bomb a Tamil Tiger sea base in the north of the country.
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The Sri Lankan government rejects a Tamil Tiger demand for peace talks to resume unconditionally.