Tamil Tigers' top negotiator dies
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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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A top Russian central banker who led an   aggressive drive to clean up Russia's murky banking system died   early on Thursday after being ambushed by gunmen in what law   enforcement officials said was a contract 'hit'.
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COLOMBO Tamil Tiger rebels killed the No. 2 leader of a renegade guerrilla faction involved in fighting between the two groups amid a surge in violence that has threatened Sri Lanka&#39;s fragile cease-fire, military and rebel sources said Thursday.
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A former Sierra Leonean militia leader,  whose fighters were accused of human sacrifice and cannibalism  during a civil war, has died weeks before the verdict was due  in his war crimes trial.
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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 Sri Lankan government minister was killed in a powerful roadside bomb attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels, followed hours later by a powerful blast in the heart of the capital Colombo, police said.
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A top Palestinian militant leader dies after being shot in the head by Israeli troops last week, Palestinians say.
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CHENNAI: Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, who unleashed a reign of terror in the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka forests killing over 120 policemen and officials, including a former Minister, was shot dead on Monday night by the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force.
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A senior al-Qaida figure, described as one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants, has reportedly been killed
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Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebels areblamed for yet another killing of a rival Tamil political activist here on Thursday. The 39-year-old father of three children, Somasunderam
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A former Sierra Leonean militia leader, whose fighters were accused of human sacrifice and cannibalism during a civil war, has died weeks before the verdict was due in his war crimes trial.
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Police say India's most wanted man, the bandit Veerappan, was killed in a well-planned operation.
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A top Indian nuclear scientist and the scientific mastermind behind the country&#39;s first atomic test, has died in the western city of Bombay (Mumbai).
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Dr Raja Ramanna, the bellwether of Indiaâs nuclear programme, passed away at Bombay Hospital in the early hours of Friday. He was 79.
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Colombo, Sept 23 (PTI) In growing factional fighting, four people, including a brother of renegade LTTE leader Karuna were today shot dead by Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka.
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The alleged top al-Qaida operative in Lebanon, who was arrested 10 days ago after authorities uncovered a plot to bomb embassies of Italy and Ukraine, and kill diplomats, died of a heart attack Monday, hospital officials and the Interior Ministry said.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have  accused the army of colluding in the killing of a top member of  its political arm and said a two-year truce that silenced the  guns after two decades of civil war faced serious threat.