Evicted Tamils arrive in north
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Hundreds of minority Tamils evicted from the Sri Lankan capital Colombo arrive in a northern town.
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Sri Lanka's military said on Sunday it had driven Tamil Tiger fighters from jungle camps in the island's restive northeast and inflicted heavy losses.
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Westerners fled by land, sea and air Monday as Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon briefly and Hezbollah rockets knocked down a three-story house in northern Israel. However, there were signs of movement on the diplomatic front to end the worst fighting in 24 years.
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Warning lights flashed atop four police cars as the caravan wound its way up the driveway in a procession fit for a foreign potentate. At long last, Azy and Indah had arrived. They even flew through a hurricane to get here.
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In Sri Lanka's war-torn north and east, where killings happen every day and work is nearly nonexistent, it doesn't take much to entice a man to leave.
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Foreign tourists leave in a shuttle bound for Colombo leaving the provisional British High commission office set in the town of Galle, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Dec.29, 2004.
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Sri Lankan troops take control of a key area in the north-east held by Tamil Tiger rebels, the military says.
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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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Heavy fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday as government troops tried to take Tamil rebel-held territory, the defence ministry said, reporting scores of guerrillas killed or wounded.
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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 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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Thousands of refugees are fleeing Tamil Tiger territory through jungle and by sea in the island's east, the military and witnesses said on Friday, trying to escape artillery duels between the army and rebels.
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The Sri Lankan army says it is consolidating positions in the recently captured north-eastern town of Sampur.
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Court orders a halt to the mass eviction of Tamils from the capital, but their fear of persecution remains
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Thousands of Muslims are fleeing their   homes in embattled northeast Sri Lanka for the second time in   as many months but thousands more are stranded, aid workers   said on Sunday, after a suspected rebel front vowed to   recapture the newly resettled area.
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TRENTON, Ont. (CP) - The first flight of Canada's Disaster Assistance Response Team left Canada for tsunami-ravaged Sri Lanka on Thursday morning.
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Heavy fighting raged Sunday in northern Sri Lanka where Tamil Tiger rebels said they lost a key leader, as Norwegian-led monitors began pulling out before the formal end of a tattered truce.