Sri Lanka to pull out of ceasefire with Tamil rebels
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"The legal process will now kick in."  The Sri Lankan government Wednesday announced it was formally withdrawing from the Norwegian-arranged ceasefire agreement with Tamil Tiger rebels, presidential spokesman Chandrapala Liyanage told AFP. via The Age
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"This comes on top of the increasingly frequent and brutal acts of violence perpetrated by both parties, and I am deeply concerned that the violence and hostilities will now escalate even further"  Sri Lanka Thursday formally told peace facilitator Norway and the Nordic truce monitors that it would withdraw from the Ceasefire Agreement with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam from Jan 16. via Nerve News
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Finland and Denmark are to pull their truce monitors out of Sri Lanka after the rebels demand that EU states quit.
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ZARIT, Israel  - Israel's army pulled out of south Lebanon early on Sunday to complete a handover to the Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers under a ceasefire deal that ended a war with Hizbollah guerrillas.
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A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip takes effect, with Palestinian rocket attacks to halt, as the Israeli army plans to pull out.
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The Tamil Tigers must decide between war and peace, Sri Lanka&#39;s president said as the government marked the capture of the rebels&#39; final bastion.
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A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip takes effect, with Palestinian rocket attacks to halt, as the Israeli army pulls out.
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Sri Lanka's cease-fire deal ended Wednesday in a spasm of violence, as suspected Tamil Tiger rebels bombed a civilian bus, gunned down the fleeing passengers and attacked farmers as they retreated into the bush, killing 31
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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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Sri Lanka on Wednesday pulled out of their cricket tour of New Zealand in the wake of the tsunami disaster that wreaked havoc across the South Asian countries including this island nation over the weekend.
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Truce monitors in Sri Lanka from European Union member states Denmark, Finland and Sweden must leave the country by September 1, a top Tamil Tiger rebel leader told AFP.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers are ready for   talks with the government to halt a new episode of civil war, a   top rebel leader said on Tuesday, but he warned violence would   spread if army offensives continued.
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A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip takes effect, with Palestinian rocket attacks to halt, as Israel plans to pull out.
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The truce is expected to end the five-month Israeli military offensive into Gaza and rocket attacks from Palestinian militants
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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.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 34 Tamil Tiger rebels in northern Sri Lanka, the military said on Saturday, following the government's formal scrapping of an already tattered truce in the two-decade civil war.
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Sri Lanka urgently needs an international rights monitoring mission following Colombo's decision to pull out of a ceasefire pact with Tamil rebels, a London-based rights group said.