Bomb Kills Sri Lankan Minister
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A Sri Lankan government minister was killed in a roadside bombing near the capital that was blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels, the military said.
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A powerful car bomb killed anti-Syrian Lebanese politician Walid Eido and nine other people on Wednesday in an attack his colleagues blamed on Damascus.
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Military officials in Sri Lanka say two soldiers and a civilian have been  killed in a roadside bomb attack.
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A blast inside an Iraqi ministry during a ceremony attended by Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi killed six people on Monday but the Shi'ite vice president and other senior officials were unhurt, witnesses and police said.
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A prominent Sri Lankan opposition Tamil parliamentarian was shot dead on Tuesday, the military said, as the opposition charged that a lack of security made the government responsible for the death.
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A blast kills three near the oil ministry in Baghdad, as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrives in Iraq.
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At least six policemen and a civilian are killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Sri Lanka, the military says.
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A car bomb exploded in central Beirut today, wounding a former Lebanese Cabinet minister in an assassination attempt, top Lebanese and Syrian officials said.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels shot dead a military informer near the Sri Lankan capital, police said.
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A bomb tore through a Sri Lankan bus packed with schoolchildren killing 23 people and wounding dozens on Wednesday, the military said, as a 6-year ceasefire formally expires between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels.
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A Sri Lankan government minister died on the operating table on Tuesday after his vehicle was targeted by a suspected Tamil Tiger roadside bomb north of the capital, a senior hospital official said.
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A bomb blast in the Lebanese capital Beirut destroyed the car of former economy minister Marwan Hamadah, wounding him and killing at least one person, say witnesses.
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Baghdad, Iraq -- Iraqi officials say two bomb attacks on Iraqi Cabinet ministers in Baghdad missed their targets but killed five people.
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A car bomb in Beirut wounded former Lebanese Cabinet minister Marwan Hamadeh and killed his driver early today, security officials said.
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At least 11 people die as an explosion hits a civilian bus in the central Sri Lankan town of Dambulla.
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A Sri Lankan minister was admitted to a hospital emergency unit on Tuesday after his car was targeted by a roadside bomb north of the capital, a hospital official said.
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A Sri Lankan minister was killed by a roadside bomb planted by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels north of the capital on Tuesday, a senior hospital official said, the second MP killed in a week as a protracted civil war escalates.