Sri Lankan protest at price rises
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More than 1,000 opposition activists protest in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, about the rising cost of living.
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Sri Lanka has vowed to wage more attacks against Tamil rebels but analysts warn it faces the prospect of devastating retaliation and risks international isolation over rising rights abuses.
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COLOMBO: A curfew was slapped on north-eastern Sri Lanka on Friday as pro-government activists clashed with Tiger rebels commemorating 17,800 comrades killed fighting government forces, police said.
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Heavy artillery exchanges rocked northern Sri Lanka as the European Union, after banning the Tamil Tigers earlier in the week, promised further action to push the rebels and the government back to the negotiating table.
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Further fuel price protests are staged in Burma, despite the arrest of more than 60 activists by the army.
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Angry protesters in Sri Lanka have left the body of a slain Tamil politician outside Norway&#39;s embassy in Colombo to protest against his killing.
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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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International agitators join mass protest
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Burma imposes a huge rise in fees for satellite TV in a move which critics say restricts access to media.
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Sri Lanka's threadbare truce has come under further pressure following decisions by Finland and Denmark to remove their monitors as Tamil rebels and government troops braced for a showdown.
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Tens of thousands of South African teachers, nurses and other public sector workers took to the country&#39;s streets yesterday to demand better wages in one of the biggest protests since the end of apartheid a decade ago.
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Sri Lanka is being criticized for apparently ordering the nation's ISPs to block a Web site that supports the Tamil Tiger rebels, a militant group that supports secession of the north and east portion of the country into a separate state.
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Sri Lanka is set to raise the prices of basic foods such as potatoes and sugar as well as cooking gas, officials announced Tuesday, fanning fears of galloping inflation in the conflict-wracked island.
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Tens of thousands of Mexicans join a march in Mexico City to protest against the rising price of tortillas.
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The Finnish presidency of the European Union has called on the warring parties in Sri Lanka to return to the negotiating table after another day of bloody fighting on the island.
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People here seem bewildered by the enormity of what has happened to their country. Sri Lankan military officials say more than 12,000 people died on the island nation.
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Thousands of people living on Sri Lanka's tsunami-battered coasts fled inland after comments by a minister triggered fears that more massive waves were about to hit the island.