Sri Lankan minister dies in blast
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A Sri Lankan minister is killed in a powerful roadside bomb blast near the capital, Colombo, doctors say.
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Anti-Syrian Lebanese MP among at least four people killed in Beirut explosion, according to reports.
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A doctor helping organise Afghan elections died on Monday along with four other civilians when an explosion tore through their vehicle, police said.
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Three people were killed and a former finance minister was critically injured in a blast at a main opposition party rally in northeastern Bangladesh, officials said.
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At least 23 people die in a bus bombing in central Sri Lanka, the military says, as the ceasefire in the country ends.
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A suicide bomber struck Monday in eastern Afghanistan at the funeral of a provincial governor who died in a suicide blast the previous day, police and witnesses said. At least five people were killed, but four Cabinet ministers who were attending the funeral escaped unharmed, police said.
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A grenade exploded at a concert of Indian movie stars and entertainers in Sri Lanka&#39;s capital Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring 15, officials said.
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Government minister killed by roadside bomb near Colombo, according to the country's military
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At least 15 government troops were killed in Tamil Tiger attacks in northern Sri Lanka Tuesday as the capital was put on red alert over fears of more rebel bombings, officials said.
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A suspected Islamist zealot  opposed to women in politics shot dead a Pakistani provincial  government minister at a political meeting on Tuesday,  officials said.
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A powerful Claymore mine exploded in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna peninsula, killing one soldier and wounding four more, the defence ministry said.
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Suspected Tamil Tigers killed four people with a roadside bomb in northern Sri Lanka on Monday while government planes bombed a rebel base, the military said, as a Japanese envoy sought to revive a collapsed peace process.
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Anti-Syrian Christian lawmaker Antoine Ghanem was killed in a car bomb explosion in the eastern part of Beirut on Wednesday, security sources said.
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A Beirut car bomb wounded a Lebanese  opposition politician and killed his driver on Friday,  witnesses and officials said.
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At least two people were killed and three others wounded in a car bomb blast targeting Iraqi Minister of Education Sami al-Mudhaffar early Tuesday in Baghdad, an interior ministry spokesman said.
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A remote-control Beirut car bomb wounded  a prominent Lebanese opposition politician and killed his  driver Friday, weeks after the former minister quit the  government to protest Syria's grip on Lebanon.
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Six people die in an explosion at a ministry in Baghdad during a ceremony attended by an Iraqi vice president.