Nearly 11 000 dead in Sri Lanka
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Colombo - Nearly 11 000 people, including 70 foreigners, were killed and 50 more were missing after tsunamis devastated much of Sri Lanka&#39;s coastline, the military and Tamil rebels said on Monday.
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Nearly 220,000 people are confirmed dead in the Asian tsunami after Indonesia raises its toll dramatically.
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COLOMBO A military spokesman raised the estimated number of deaths in Sri Lanka caused by devastating waves by more than 5,000 people on Monday, increasing estimates of the death toll from the regional catastrophe to more than 20,000 people.
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MORE than 11,800 people have been killed and tens of thousands left homeless after a massive undersea earthquake triggered giant tsunami waves across Asia.
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Fierce fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka Monday as government forces mounted a fresh push into territory held by Tiger rebels, with the official death toll from the new clashes at more than 50.
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More than 15,000 Nepalese have taken part in a peace rally in Kathmandu as the death toll from the country&#39;s nine-year-old Maoist conflict reached 11,000.
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The number of Americans known to  have been killed in the devastating tsunami has risen to 11 and  hundreds remain unaccounted for, Secretary of State Colin  Powell said on Tuesday, as the death toll across Asia  approached 40,000 people.
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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 security forces are on red alert, officials said, as Tamil Tiger rebels remembered 18,742 comrades killed in their decades-long campaign for a separate homeland.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Thousands of frantic Sri  Lankans searched corpse-strewn rubble for relatives along the  Indian Ocean island's devastated coastline on Tuesday as the  nation's death toll from a deadly tsunami rose above 12,200.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 11 Tamil Tiger rebels and two soldiers also died in clashes in the north, the military said on Sunday, as stepped-up fighting continues in the latest chapter of a long-running civil war.
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SRI Lanka said today it feared about 200 foreign tourists had been killed by its worst tsunami in memory after the military raised the overall death toll to more than 10,000 people.
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The Sri Lanka army said it had attacked   and overrun several rebel Tamil Tiger bunkers on Saturday, with   at least 11 soldiers and many rebels killed.
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The death toll from massive tidal waves that struck Sri Lanka&#39;s coastline leapt to more than 12,000 on Monday as thousands of soldiers and families kept up the search for bodies.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Survivors in seven countries  on the shores of the Indian Ocean scrabbled frantically through  debris and devastation for their loved ones on Tuesday as the  death toll climbed inexorably toward 40,000.
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At least 52 people have been killed in Sri Lanka as heavy sea and land battles erupted while Tamil Tiger rebels warned that the island would plunge in a &amp;quot;fatal war&amp;quot; if the military kept up air strikes.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lanka's tsunami death toll  shot up on Monday as officials said the more they cleared up,  the more bodies they found.