Reporters hold Sri Lanka minister
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Police in Sri Lanka are sent in to rescue a minister held by TV journalists after one of his aides assaults a member.
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Sri Lanka's foreign minister said on Sunday the government is not planning to scrap a 2002 ceasefire pact with the Tamil Tigers, and was willing to meet with the Tigers for talks as soon as possible.
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An outspoken ethnic Tamil opposition MP was shot dead during a New Year service at a Hindu temple in the Sri Lankan capital Tuesday, the third assassination of a minority legislator in two years.
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Sri Lanka has confirmed the identity of a Sri Lankan truck driver taken hostage by Iraqi militants, and said it is working to secure his release.
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The Sri Lankan government survives a budget vote that could have triggered an early election.
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Representatives of Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tigers rebels, mortal enemies, are working together to help tsunami victims.
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka stepped up security in the capital Colombo on Saturday as police launched an investigation into the slaying of a judge and his bodyguard, officials said.
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In Sri Lanka the leader of the LTTE guerillas, Velupillai Prabhkaran, has threatened with resumption of the civil war unless the government agrees to new peace talks.
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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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The agricultural minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, was to face parliamentary questioning on a political scandal.
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Reporters there say they face a growing threat from feuding political factions.
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The Sri Lankan government of President Rajapaksa survives a budget vote that could have triggered an early election.
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A month before Singapore goes under   the international spotlight as the venue of a major   International Monetary Fund conference, the government flexed   its muscles to remind the media of its controls on the press.
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A Sri Lankan minister was killed by a roadside bomb planted by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels north of the capital on Tuesday, a senior hospital official said, the second MP killed in a week as a protracted civil war escalates.
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A prominent Sri Lankan opposition Tamil parliamentarian was shot dead on Tuesday, the military said, as the opposition charged that a lack of security made the government responsible for the death.
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Sri Lanka's government has proposed holding new peace talks with Tamil Tigers in the next few weeks and is awaiting a response from the rebels, a top government official told AFP.
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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.