Under fire, under siege: Hard time Sri Lanka style
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KANKASANTURAI, Sri Lanka  - Besieged by Tamil   Tiger artillery fire and surrounded by 40,000 troops in what   must be the world's most heavily guarded jail, hard time has   taken on a new meaning for jailbirds in north Sri Lanka.
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COLOMBOâStill reeling from its worst natural disaster in history, Sri Lanka braced today for the painful fallout from &quot;tidal waves terror&quot; that engulfed the island&#39;s shoreline.
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Security tight in Colombo as Sri Lanka marks 60 years of independence amid renewed unrest.
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Sri Lanka and Thailand struggle to get their tourist industries back on track.
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Sri Lanka's threadbare truce has come under further pressure following decisions by Finland and Denmark to remove their monitors as Tamil rebels and government troops braced for a showdown.
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Sri Lanka bears the brunt of Sunday's sea surges with nearly 11,000 dead and up to a million displaced.
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The Sri Lankan cricket team&#39;s problems are far worse than previously imagined, with four players now personally affected by the impact of devastating tsunamis on their homeland.
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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka -- Members of the Tamil Tigers, separatist rebels who control large swaths of Sri Lanka's north and east, are appealing to international organizations to bypass the central government and send aid directly to the tsunami-devastated regions within their territories, saying they have received little help in the 10 days since the disaster.
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BOOSSA, Sri Lanka  - Huddled outside a detention camp in Sri Lanka's far south, relatives of civilians held for months without charge say lives are being ruined by emergency regulations amid renewed civil war.
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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas claimed to have inflicted heavy casualties against each other in fierce fighting in the country's north.
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Security is tight in Colombo as Sri Lanka marks 60 years of independence amid renewed unrest.
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Sri Lanka bears the brunt of Sunday's sea surges with more than 2,400 dead and up to a million displaced.
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Heavy fighting has gripped Sri Lanka as Tamil Tiger rebels and troops blamed each other for the renewed battles and India sent a top envoy to discuss the worsening violence.
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Sri Lankans trying to come to terms with piles of corpses left by a tsunami may never know the actual death toll because of the disaster's unprecedented scale, different methods of counting and the politics of an ethnic war.
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The killing of a top Tamil Tiger rebel political leader raises fears that Sri Lanka could return to civil war.
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COLOMBO - The top Tamil Tiger leader has warned he will launch a âfreedom struggleâ unless peace talks resume soon, in what an analyst said was a veiled threat to revive Sri Lankaâs civil war.
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Sri Lanka will introduce tough emergency regulations to curb terrorist activities but will not impose a ban on Tamil Tiger rebels, the island's government said on Wednesday.