Sri Lanka rebel clash kills 4 as UK envoy visits
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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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Italy's ambassador to Sri Lanka and six servicemen were slightly injured on Tuesday when a delegation of diplomats led by the island's human rights minister came under rebel shelling in the restive east, officials said.
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Clashes between Sri Lankan soldiers and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in the country's embattled north left 31 guerrillas and one soldier dead, the military said Saturday.
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The Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers say that fighting on Thursday has left more than 30 dead.
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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels were engaged in sporadic clashes in the north of the island Monday, the day after fierce battles left scores dead, official sources said.
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At least one soldier and &quot;many&quot; Tamil Tiger rebels were killed Saturday in heavy fighting between the two sides in northern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said.
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The Sri Lankan military claims it has killed 26 separatist rebels in four different clashes.
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hree Tamil civilians were shot dead in the northern town of Vavuniya, police said, as four soldiers died in clashes with Tiger rebels in the embattled north and east.
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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka  - Tamil Tiger rebels held  their first talks with Norwegian peace envoys since the tsunami  Saturday saying the disaster opened up new possibilities for a  solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict.
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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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The Liberation Tigers met Sri Lankan armed forces representatives Friday at the truce monitoring mission office in Batticaloa for discussions on the security of their political activists who are working in the eastern town.
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Four people are reported to have been killed in clashes in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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Fighting killed at least four people in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday as Islamist-led rebels attacked government troops and their Ethiopian allies.
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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has voiced concern about the safety of aid workers in Sri Lanka after the murder of two Red Cross volunteers, his office said, as Japan's peace envoy began a visit to the war-battered island.
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More than 20 Tamil Tiger rebels and one soldier were killed in clashes in northern Sri Lanka on Monday, the military said, the latest in a rash of confrontations amid renewed civil war.
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The Sri Lankan military claims it has killed 26 separatist rebels in four separate clashes.
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(The Sri Lankan military corrected its figures on rebel deaths in fighting from 29 to 11. Changes made in headline, first and third paragraphs)    COLOMBO  - 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.