'Dozens dead' in S Lanka fighting
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More than 40 rebels and 10 government troops die in fresh fighting in northern Sri Lanka, the military says.
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Heavy fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday as government troops tried to take Tamil rebel-held territory, the defence ministry said, reporting scores of guerrillas killed or wounded.
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Sri Lanka's military said on Friday troops had killed 29 Tamil Tigers in a series of land clashes over 24 hours, as the death toll from renewed civil war continued its inexorable climb.
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Fighting between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels has left 28 soldiers dead and 100 hurt, the army says.
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Thousands are fleeing villages in eastern Sri Lanka amid fighting between Tamil Tigers and government forces.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 29 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.
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At least two people died and more were wounded in an exchange of artillery fire between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil rebels in the island&#39;s northwest, guerrillas and the defence ministry said on Saturday.
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Sri Lankan troops have killed 28 Tamil Tiger rebels in a series of clashes in the island's north in 24 hours, the military said on Thursday, amid near daily clashes as renewed civil war deepens.
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Sri Lanka's navy sank 12 Tamil Tiger   craft before dawn in a naval battle off the island's northern   tip and dozens of rebels, including suicide fighters, are   believed to have been killed, the military said on Saturday.
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Sri Lankan troops killed seven Tamil Tigers in the island's far north on Monday, taking the death toll from fierce fighting to 73, mostly rebels, since Saturday alone, the military said.
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Sri Lanka's military said on Saturday troops captured rebel positions in the island's northwest killing 20 rebels, while rebels said they had killed 20 soldiers in the latest clashes in the civil war.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 30 Tamil Tiger rebels in fighting in the north of the island in which one soldier was killed, the military said on Saturday.
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[World News]: Colombo, Dec 27 : At least 5,880 people, including 70 foreigners, were killed in Sri Lanka a day after tsunamis wreaked havoc along most of the island&#39;s coastline, the military and Tamil rebels said today.
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Sri Lanka's rebel Tamil Tigers have commemorated thousands of fighters killed in battle amid sporadic clashes with government forces in the island's embattled northeast, the rebels said.
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Colombo: The death toll in Sri Lanka went up to nearly 12,000 on Tuesday, two days after fierce tidal waves swamped its coastline.
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The truce between Sri Lanka's warring parties has been stretched to breaking point after one of the bloodiest days in the island's recent history left at least 67 soldiers and Tamil rebels dead.
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The Sri Lankan defence ministry says at least 15 rebels and two soldiers have been killed in fighting in the east.