Bomb kills 5 in rebel-held north Sri Lanka: monitors
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A roadside bomb killed five people, including Tamil Tiger insurgents, in an apparent ambush in rebel-held territory in Sri Lanka's far north on Tuesday, Nordic truce monitors said.
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Sri Lankan security forces defused three suspected Tamil Tiger rebel bombs on Sunday, including one in the ancient central hill capital of Kandy.
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Sri Lankan military jets bombed and destroyed a Tamil Tiger military base in the island's rebel-held north on Saturday, the military said, in a third successive day of air raids.
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At least five people are killed in a suspected suicide attack on the main railway station in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo.
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A Sri Lankan government minister was killed Tuesday in a powerful roadside bomb attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels near the island's capital and international airport, officials said.
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Sri Lankan security forces defused three suspected Tamil Tiger rebel bombs on Sunday, including one in the ancient central hill capital of Kandy where thousands of people are attending a Buddhist pageant.
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Sri Lankan troops smashed bunkers of Tamil Tiger rebels in the island's embattled north and kept up attacks elsewhere leaving 39 guerrillas dead, the island's defence ministry said Friday.
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A powerful blast ripped through a bus station at Dambulla in north-central Sri Lanka Saturday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 30, police said.
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A bomb in the Sri Lankan capital kills at least four and injures 20, police and military officials say.
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A female suicide bomber blew herself up at the main railway station in the Sri Lankan capital Sunday, killing six people and wounding 95 others, the military and a hospital official said.
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Five mortar bombs exploded in northern Mogadishu on Monday, killing at least three people, wounding several others and flattening homes in the Somali capital's latest outbreak of post-war violence, witnesses said.
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The intelligence head of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels is killed, as violence continues in the north of the island.
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At least five people killed in car bombing at temple in north-eastern province of Mareb, police say.
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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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Five Muslim civilians were killed in shell attacks in the Sri Lankan town of Muttur, raising the death toll from clashes between the army and Tamil rebels to 26, a Muslim legislator said.
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Five people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the Afghan province of Khost, officials say.
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A car bomb killed five people on Saturday between the Iraqi Shi'ite holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala, sites of twin suicide car bombings a week ago, the chief of police in Najaf said.