Lanka president attacks 'cowards'
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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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Sri Lanka may outlaw the Tamil Tigers if the rebels continue to mount large scale attacks, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Monday, a move that would put any hope of renewed peace talks even further out of reach.
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Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has said that the government can no longer ignore the spate of killings by the Tamil Tiger rebels, a presidential statement available here on Thursday.
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COLOMBO  - Thousands of tsunami victims were buried in mass graves as the death toll neared 18,000 and Sri Lanka&#39;s president called for ethnic unity to tackle the crisis.
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THE President of Sri Lanka and the leader of the countryâs rebel Tamil Tigers have appealed for international assistance after the tsunami left at least 4,300 dead and made up to one million people homeless.
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Sri Lanka may outlaw the Tamil Tigers if the rebels continue to mount large-scale attacks, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Monday, a move that would put the prospect of renewed peace talks further out of reach.
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The brother of East Timor President Jose  Ramos-Horta on Thursday accused United Nations security forces  of behaving like "bloody cowards" and said they hid, rather  than defended the wounded leader against rebels.
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Tamil Tigers react angrily as the UN chief is stopped from visiting tsunami-hit areas of Sri Lanka they control.
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Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga urges the Tamil Tiger rebels to restart peace talks.
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Thailand's ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra launched a scathing attack on the generals who removed him in a bloodless coup a year ago and accused the world of turning a blind eye to "departures from democratic norms".
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Sri Lanka Thursday expressed "deep displeasure" to Britain's top envoy here over his remarks that political aspirations for carving out a separate Tamil state was not illegal.
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Pakistan's ex-top judge makes a thinly disguised attack on President Musharraf, in a speech to supporters.
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A Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebel leader expressed regret over the 1991 assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, in an interview aired on Indian television.
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Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapkse offered fresh peace talks and asked Tiger rebels to lay down weapons as he visited this former guerrilla-held town.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s government has rejected demands from Tamil Tiger rebels to unconditionally resume peace talks. The rebels threatened at the weekend to return to military action unless discussions based on their blueprint for self-rule began again.
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The brother of East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta on Thursday accused United Nations security forces of behaving like "bloody cowards" and said they hid, rather than defended the wounded leader against rebels.
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East Timor rebel leader Alfredo Reinado must be &quot;neutralised&quot; after escaping an attack by crack international troops on his hideout, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Monday.