Sri Lanka shuts rebel border
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Sri Lanka&#39;s army has closed off entry points to areas controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels for the first day since a 2002 ceasefire after Red Cross officials said they feared for their safety amid sporadic violence.
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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 evicted hundreds of minority ethnic Tamils from the capital on Thursday and sent them back to the war-torn north citing security concerns, as the military battled Tamil Tiger rebels in the east.
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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger  rebels said on Saturday they had put politics aside to clear up  after the Asian tsunami, but added that swifter, fairer  government aid distribution could boost peace prospects.
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Sri Lanka has offered fresh talks with Tamil Tigers to avert a return to all-out civil war as the top guerrilla leader wrote off the Norwegian-backed peace process.
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Sri Lanka's military battled Tamil Tiger rebels with tanks and fighter jets along a shared "border" in the island's east on Thursday, with each side blaming the other for the outbreak of fighting.
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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka, Dec 30  - Tamil Tiger rebels Thursday left the door open for cooperation with their warring partner, the Sri Lankan government, on tsunami relief operations.
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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lankan troops drove Tamil Tiger fighters from their last stronghold in the island's east on Wednesday, the military said, but the rebels vowed to carry on with a guerrilla-style war.
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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil   Tiger rebels exchanged gunfire and skirmished at sea on Sunday,   bringing to an end a four-day lull in fighting around the   besieged Jaffna peninsula.
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Tamil Tiger rebels say they are willing to abide by a truce which Sri Lanka's government is abandoning.
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Heavy fighting raged Sunday in northern Sri Lanka where Tamil Tiger rebels said they lost a key leader, as Norwegian-led monitors began pulling out before the formal end of a tattered truce.
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COLOMBO - Deadly tsunamis have unexpectedly shored up Sri Lankaâs peace process, where the government has been under pressure to open talks with Tiger rebels or risk war.
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Sri Lanka's navy said on Saturday it   sank 12 Tamil Tiger craft in a pre-dawn naval battle off the   island's northern tip, killing dozens of guerrillas including   suicide fighters, but the rebels dismissed the claim.
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Nordic ceasefire monitors began wrapping up their 6-year mission to Sri Lanka on Friday after the government scrapped a truce with the Tamil Tigers, and their mandate, amid a chorus of international concern.
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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's government decided on Wednesday to annul a six-year ceasefire agreement with the Tamil Tigers which would allow a full-scale military campaign to recapture the rebels' de facto state in the north of the island.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s military claimed Wednesday it had captured the last Tamil Tiger rebel stronghold in the island&#39;s east following months of fighting, as peace broker Norway tried to revive a tattered truce.