Sri Lanka ends ceasefire with Tamil Tigers
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Sri Lanka's government decided on Wednesday to annul a six-year ceasefire agreement with the Tamil Tigers which would allow a full-scale military campaign to recapture the rebels' de facto state in the north of the island.
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The Tamil Tigers are suspected for the roadside bomb attack, which came as a six-year cease-fire between the state and rebels formally expired.
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A suspected Tamil Tiger roadside bomb hit a civilian bus in north-central Sri Lanka on Wednesday, bomb squad and military officials said, as a 6-year ceasefire between the state and rebels formally expires.
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Sri Lanka's government said it pushed   Tamil Tiger rebels from the mouth of strategic Trincomalee   harbor in the island's restive northeast on Monday, and that it   would therefore halt its offensive.
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GUWAHATI, India  - India has ended a truce with   rebels in the country's northeast and resumed a   counter-insurgency operation after militants killed two people,   including a policeman, an army official said on Sunday.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels announced a resumption of their &quot;freedom struggle&quot; after declaring that a truce arranged by peace broker Norway had collapsed.
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Sri Lanka's government has decided to formally annul a ceasefire agreement with the Tamil Tigers, a senior government official said on Wednesday.
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Sri Lankan troops killed at least 20 Tamil Tigers in heavy fighting near a "border" that separates government and rebel-held terrain in northern Sri Lanka overnight, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
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Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels will likely escalate into the bloodiest period of fighting the island has seen after the government scrapped a tattered truce, experts said on Thursday.
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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 Lanka agrees to talks with Tamil Tiger rebels after months of violence and fears of a return to all-out war.
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COLOMBO, Jan 21 (IPS) - While the Norway-brokered ceasefire between the Sri  Lankan government and Tamil separatist militants finally failed,  last week, it did provide a six-year window of prosperity to this  island nation torn by a festering ethnic conflict.
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Air raids, roadside blasts, suicide bombings, land and sea battles and thousands killed. So much for the 2002 ceasefire between Sri Lanka's army and the Tamil Tigers.
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Sri Lanka's government officially notified peace-broker Norway on Thursday that it is pulling out of a 2002 cease-fire agreement with Tamil Tiger rebels that has failed to quell the violence.
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The Sri Lankan military said it repulsed an attack by Tamil Tiger rebels on a navy base on Tuesday, amid increasingly bloody violence between government forces and the Tiger militants.
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Nordic ceasefire monitors began wrapping up their 6-year mission to Sri Lanka on Friday after the government scrapped a truce with the Tamil Tigers, and their mandate, amid a chorus of international concern.
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Emirates says that it is ending its management contract with Sri Lanka's national carrier in March.