Eight Lankan planes 'destroyed'
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Sri Lanka's prime minister admits that a Tamil Tiger attack on an air force base caused far more damage than previously acknowledged.
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At least eight people were killed after a wall collapsed at a building site at Dubai airport today. Workers said they saw up to 40 casualties being taken from the scene of the collapse, with some people reported to be trapped under the debris.
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Sri Lankan fighter jets bombed a Tamil Tiger military base in the rebel-held far north on Friday triggering multiple explosions, the air force said, while a suspected rebel roadside bomb killed one civilian in the east.
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Sri Lanka's military says it has overrun four Tamil Tiger  bases in the north-east  after three days of fighting.
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Sri Lankan air force fighter jets pounded northern rebel positions on Wednesday as ground troops attacked 35 rebel bunkers, killing at least 10 Tamil Tigers, the military said.
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Four Sri Lankan airmen died in a helicopter crash during a land and air attack by Tamil Tiger rebels on a military base, the defence ministry said Monday.
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French forces in Ivory Coast destroyed  two Ivorian warplanes on Saturday after they hit a French  target in the rebel-held town of Bouake, killing eight French  soldiers, a United Nations official said.
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Sri Lankan troops killed around 30 Tamil Tigers in a clash overnight in jungle in the island's restive east, the military said on Wednesday, hours after the navy said it had killed around 40 insurgents in a sea battle.
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Jeremy Bowen reports on the devastation caused by Sunday's  sea surges in parts of Sri Lanka controlled by Tamil Tigers rebels.
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Sri Lankan air force jets bombed Tamil Tiger territory for a second day on Wednesday, as the government accused Nordic truce monitors and a U.N. envoy of misleading financial donors about military truce violations.
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Sri Lanka's Navy destroyed a suspected Tamil Tiger boat and damaged another off the island's northeast coast before dawn on Monday killing around 10 rebels, officials said.
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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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Sri Lankan air force jets bombed a Tamil Tiger suicide fighter camp near the rebels' northern stronghold on Saturday, the military said, adding it believed it had inflicted heavy losses.
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Sri Lankan warplanes pounded Tamil Tiger targets in the east on Tuesday and three soldiers were killed in a suspected rebel ambush, the military said.
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Sri Lankan warplanes bombed a Tamil Tiger base in the far north on Friday, a day after ground troops killed 30 rebels in clashes across the region, the military said.
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Security forces say they have killed at least 22 Tamil Tiger rebels in a pre-dawn ground battle in eastern Sri Lanka, hours after war planes pounded guerrilla positions in the area.Comment
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Eleven people, including the U.S. and Italian ambassadors to Sri Lanka, were injured when suspected rebels fired on their helicopter upon landing in the eastern city of Batticaloa Tuesday, Sri Lankan military sources told CNN.