Tigers issue warning as sea and land battles kill 52
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At least 52 people have been killed in Sri Lanka as heavy sea and land battles erupted while Tamil Tiger rebels warned that the island would plunge in a &amp;quot;fatal war&amp;quot; if the military kept up air strikes.
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At least 52 people were killed by the strong earthquake that shook the Indonesian island of Sumatra, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's spokesman said Wednesday, revising down an earlier toll.
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The latest death toll from the Asian tsunami has risen dramatically to more than 56,000 after Indonesian authorities found mass destruction in the province of Aceh.
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More than 50 people were killed and 20 injured in Sudan's worst floods in living memory which have partially or completely destroyed 18,000 homes, the head of civil defense said on Thursday.
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Heavy sea and land battles have erupted in Sri Lanka with the military reporting the recovery of 22 bodies of Tamil rebels after a Norwegian envoy failed to secure a deal to re-launch peace talks.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - The sea and wreckage of  coastal towns all around the Indian Ocean yielded up tens of  thousands of bodies on Tuesday, pushing the toll from Sunday's  tsunami past 50,000.
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Sri Lanka's army and Tamil rebels say there have been many casualties in clashes in the east.
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Port Blair, Dec 29 At least half of the population of the Car Nicobar island was reported missing and aftershocks continued to rock the Andaman and Nicobar islands where between 3,000 and 6,000 people are feared killed in Sunday&#39;s devastating tsunami.
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Series of clashes break out on land and sea in the war-torn north
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Death toll rises to 64 as opposition and media ridicule lack of disaster planning.
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Sri Lanka's military said on Friday troops had killed 35 Tamil Tigers in a series of land clashes in the island's north in 24 hours as the death toll from renewed civil war climbs inexorably higher.
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A top Sri Lankan defence source warned Tuesday the current military campaign against the Tiger rebels could take up to three years as warplanes bombed rebel positions for a second day.
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A series of bomb blasts and militant attacks in Nagaland and Assam have killed at least 49 people today. In Assam, there have been several explosions and attacks all through the day, killing 26 people.
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A national parks official based in the Indonesian province of Aceh says he believes as many as 45,000 people might have been killed on Sumatra&#39;s west coast alone and that the death toll for Aceh overall could now exceed 80,000.
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At least 50 people were killed and hundreds missing in Pakistan after a dam burst and swept whole villages into the sea, officials said, as the death toll from a week of record rains hit 112.
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More than 5,000 wild animals have been found abandoned and close to death on a broken-down fishing boat off the coast of southern China, state media reported Friday.
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Beijing, Sept 6 (VNA) - Up to 55 people were killed and 52 others were reported missing in floods and landslides in China&#39;s Sichuan province and Chongqing city in the past three days, local media said on Monday.