Senior Tiger killed in Sri Lanka
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A top Tamil Tiger and four other rebels are shot dead in government-held territory in eastern Sri Lanka.
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About 30 Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed in overnight clashes in the east of Sri Lanka, the army says.
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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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A state in northern India has ordered a probe into sudden deaths of a pair of apparently healthy rare tigers in a government zoo, a report said.
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A senior Congress party leader in the Indian state of Assam is killed by suspected separatists, police say.
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The senior negotiator for the Tamil Tigers, Anton Balasingham, has died of cancer in London, the BBC  learns.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 15 Tamil Tiger rebels and three soldiers died in clashes in the north, the military said on Sunday, as stepped-up fighting continued in the latest chapter of a long-running civil war.
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Three Tamil Tiger rebels and a policeman were killed in a clash in eastern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, the military said, minutes before a British minister flew in to the area to visit war refugees and aid workers.
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Three Tamil Tiger rebels and one soldier were killed in a clash in northern Sri Lanka early on Monday, the military said, the latest confrontation in a renewed civil war.
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An Indian soldier kills his senior in Rajouri district Indian-administered Kashmir, the police say.
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JAKARTA -- Suharto, who in 32 years of authoritarian rule of Indonesia turned one of Asia's largest and poorest countries into a fast-growing tiger economy, has died. He was 86.
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A leading Tamil opposition MP is Sri Lankan is shot dead at a Hindu temple in the capital Colombo, officials say.
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A suspected Tamil Tiger rebel shot dead a rival Tamil political activist in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, police said.
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Dreaded forest brigand and sandalwood smuggler Veerappan was shot dead in an encounter by the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force, STF, in Dharmapuri district late last night, reports UNI.
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: A renegade leader of the Tamil Tigers has been killed in a firefight in Sri Lankaâs restive east, the rebel group said today, the latest in a rash of killings marring a truce that halted two decades of civil war.
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A tiger escaped its cage at the San Francisco Zoo on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring two others, a newspaper reported.
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The senior negotiator for Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, who vociferously pleaded their cause around the world but never took up arms, has died of cancer in London, a close associate told AFP.