Fighting flares despite Sri Lanka peace talk pledges
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Sporadic shelling continued in Sri Lanka's north on Thursday and suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed a soldier with a roadside bomb, just hours after the government agreed to crunch talks aimed at halting renewed civil war.
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Sri Lankan troops and Tamil rebels, deadly foes for two decades, worked together on tsunami relief efforts &#151; but hopes are fading that the disaster will help heal the animosity.
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KANKASANTURAI, Sri Lanka  - Firing artillery   shells toward Tamil Tiger positions as fighting flares despite   peace talk pledges, Sri Lankan gunner Herath Rajaratne longs   for the day he can return to his family and civilian life.
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Sri Lanka's army and Tamil rebels say there have been many casualties in clashes in the east.
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Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels will likely escalate into the bloodiest period of fighting the island has seen after the government scrapped a tattered truce, experts said.
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Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Thursday accused Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels of killing their opponents despite a ceasefire and warned that the government will not tolerate the murders.
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Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka clashed with security forces and civilians in a strategic port town today, leaving one person dead and three injured.
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Government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels were locked in heavy combat in northern Sri Lanka Saturday night, as the military bombed rebel positions elsewhere, official sources said.
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Rebels mounted a fierce offensive Saturday in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna Peninsula, the heart of the island's Tamil minority, military officials and the rebels said amid the heaviest fighting since the two sides signed a 2002 cease-fire.
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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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Heavy fighting between government troops and Tamil Tigers broke out in northern Sri Lanka Thursday, hours after Colombo announced it was pulling out of a tattered ceasefire agreement with the rebels.
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A top Norwegian peace envoy met with Sri Lanka&#39;s Prime Minister on Thursday, a day after failing to break a deadlock in peace talks between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels.
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka could slip back to a protracted war within months unless the government agrees to revive peace talks based on a controversial rebel blueprint for self-rule, analysts said on Sunday.
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The talks between the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen and the LTTE Supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran in Kilinochchi on Thursday failed to break the stalemate on the question of resuming peace talks with the Sri Lankan government to end the ethnic
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Sri Lanka said Friday it could not return to the negotiating table with the Tamil Tigers unless there was a guarantee from the rebels that they would not walk away from the talks.
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At least 52 people have been killed in Sri Lanka as heavy sea and land battles erupted while Tamil Tiger rebels warned that the island would plunge in a &amp;quot;fatal war&amp;quot; if the military kept up air strikes.
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Rebels in Sri Lanka warn they may return to war if the government fails to resume peace talks on their terms.