3,000 Tamils flee to escape fighting
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Sloshing through eastern Sri Lanka's flooded jungles, about 3,000 ethnic Tamils crossed Saturday into government-held areas to escape violence that is pushing the country closer to an all-out war between separatist rebels and the government.
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The Sri Lankan army says it has moved into Tamil Tiger-held areas in the north, after fighting kills 33 soldiers.
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Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing into Afghanistan as the security situation worsens in tribal regions.
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Police search for nearly 300 people, including 100 Maoist rebels, who escaped from a prison in central India.
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A sea battle breaks out between government patrol boats and Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's northern sea.
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Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the government to stop evicting minority ethnic Tamils from the capital a day after police deported hundreds to the island's war-torn north, a civil rights lawyer said.
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Recovery efforts were under way in eastern Sri Lanka after overloaded boats carrying refugees from the rebel-held Vakarai region capsized.  At least 13 people are feared drowned, the BBC reported.  Fighting in the area in recent weeks has displaced tens of thousands of people.
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THAI army helicopters with loudspeakers hovered over remote jungle peaks in the south of the country yesterday, coaxing those who had fled Sundayâs massive tidal wave to come down to safety.
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Some 3,000 civilians are fleeing as heavy artillery duels in Sri Lanka's restive northeast killed more than 110 people, including 41 civilians, according to rebels and security forces.
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At least 300 prisoners, including  dozens of Maoist insurgents, escaped from a central Indian jail  after overpowering guards on Sunday, police said.
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KANKASANTURAI, Sri Lanka  - Besieged by Tamil   Tiger artillery fire and surrounded by 40,000 troops in what   must be the world's most heavily guarded jail, hard time has   taken on a new meaning for jailbirds in north Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka poured thousands more security forces into the Sinhalese-dominated south on Tuesday after a string of Tamil rebel attacks left 37 civilians and three police dead, officials said.
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Thousands of people flee fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo amid fears of a humanitarian crisis.
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Tamil rebels and Sri Lankan troops fought fierce battles in the north at the weekend, leaving several combatants dead or wounded, according to conflicting statements from both sides Sunday.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 36 Tamil Tigers in the island's north, taking the death toll from fierce fighting at the weekend to 79, most of them rebels, the military said on Monday.
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Thousands of Sri Lankans panicked and fled miles inland on Thursday after hearing reports a new tsunami was on its way.
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Sri Lankan troops killed around 30 Tamil Tigers in a clash overnight in jungle in the island's restive east, the military said on Wednesday, hours after the navy said it had killed around 40 insurgents in a sea battle.