Thousands of S.Lankan refugees flee rebel-held east
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Thousands of refugees are fleeing Tamil Tiger territory through jungle and by sea in the island's east, the military and witnesses said on Friday, trying to escape artillery duels between the army and rebels.
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GOMA, Congo  - Thousands of civilians have fled  their homes after clashes in the east of the Democratic  Republic of Congo, the United Nations said on Friday, but it  was unclear who was behind the violence.
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More than 100,000 Congolese have fled renewed fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo army and rebels in the battle-torn east of the country, United Nations officials said yesterday.
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An aid convoy to eastern Sri Lanka turns back because of fighting between the government and Tamil rebels.
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Monsoon flooding has forced more than 30,000 people in eastern Sri Lanka from their homes, with many taking refuge in temporary shelters like huts, schools and mosques, officials said on Thursday.
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BUKAVU, Congo  - About 100,000 civilians in eastern Congo have fled a week of fighting between renegade soldiers and army loyalists, hiding deep into the forest where humanitarian workers cannot reach them, United Nations officials said Sunday.
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BOOSSA, Sri Lanka  - Huddled outside a detention camp in Sri Lanka's far south, relatives of civilians held for months without charge say lives are being ruined by emergency regulations amid renewed civil war.
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GOMA, Congo  - 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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Aid workers in eastern DR Congo struggle to cope with a surge of people fleeing recent fighting.
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Ten thousand Congolese refugees have fled to neighboring Uganda to escape growing clashes in eastern Congo between the army and renegade troops, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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Torrential rains brought fresh hardship to tsunami survivors in eastern Sri Lanka on Sunday, flooding refugee camps, forcing the evacuation of at least one and leaving others dotted with stagnant pools.
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Thousands of civilians have fled their homes after clashes in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said on Friday, although it was unclear who was behind the violence.
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Aid agencies around the world rushed  staff, equipment and money to southern Asia where hundreds of  thousands of people were forced to flee after tsunamis pummeled  coastal communities on Sunday.
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NEW DELHI: Thousands of distraught Indian tourists started fleeing the once-idyllic Asian coastal resorts from Maldives to Sri Lanka and Thailand on Monday, a day after rising tidal waves left over 21,000 people dead in the region.
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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.
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Sri Lankan soldiers battled Tamil Tiger rebels in jungles in the island's restive east on Thursday, the military said, as Japan's special peace envoy visited camps for war-displaced families in the area.
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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.