Ambassadors hurt in east Sri Lanka by rebel shells
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The Italian and U.S. ambassadors to Sri Lanka were slightly hurt on Tuesday when Tamil Tiger rebels shelled a delegation of diplomats led by the island's human rights minister to the restive east, officials said.
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The U.S. and Italian ambassadors to Sri Lanka were "slightly injured" when their helicopters were targeted by mortars fired by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels in the east on Tuesday, officials said.
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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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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas claimed on Saturday to have inflicted heavy casualties against each other in fierce fighting in the country's north.
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Sri Lanka's military carried out air attacks inside rebel-held territory as the United Nations and Norwegian truce monitors voiced grave concern for 35,000 civilians trapped by the fighting.
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The Sri Lankan president blames the Tamil Tigers for the killing of the senior official in the east of the island.
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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.
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Tamil Tiger rebel artillery fire hit a school in the island's restive east on Thursday, injuring 10 students -- two of them seriously -- the military said.
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Sri Lanka's military battled Tamil Tiger rebels with tanks and fighter jets along a shared "border" in the island's east on Thursday, with each side blaming the other for the outbreak of fighting.
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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has voiced deep 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 flew to the war-battered island.
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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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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&#39;s peace envoy began a visit to the war-battered  island.
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An explosion on Tuesday hit the convoy of Sri Lanka's Nation Building Minister, D.M. Dassanayake, wounding him on the road between the capital, Colombo, and the international airport.
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A bomb detonated by suspected Tamil rebels derailed a train in eastern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, the military said, injuring at least four passengers a day before a Japanese peace envoy was to visit the troubled region.
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Members of the Sinhala and Tamil communities have clashed again in eastern Sri Lanka after a grenade attack on a bus left one person dead.
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Sri Lanka's army claims to have inflicted heavy casualties on Tamil rebels in fighting in the north.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have complained to Scandinavian truce monitors that government troops attacked them and have warned the fragile peace process could collapse.