Sri Lanka fighting claims 39 ahead of peace envoy visit
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Twenty-four hours of intense fighting across Sri Lanka's north left at least 38 rebels and one soldier dead by early Saturday, the military said, a day ahead of a visit by a Japanese special peace envoy.
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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas claimed on Saturday to have inflicted heavy casualties against each other in fierce fighting in the country's north.
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Tamil Tiger rebel leaders were set to travel to Europe for talks on Sri Lanka&#39;s stalled peace process, as fears that the island nation could slide back into war fester, a senior guerrilla official said.
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Sri Lanka expressed concern over truce violations by Tiger rebels as a top Norwegian envoy prepared to return home empty-handed after failing to end the island's talks deadlock, officials said.
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Foreign Office minister Kim Howells was to start a three-day trip to Sri Lanka to assess the impact of recent fighting and reinforce Britain's support for a negotiated settlement.
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The US secretary of state and UN secretary general are to visit Sri Lanka, where tensions have grown over tsunami aid.
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Sri Lanka's military says it has come under attack from Tamil Tigers the day after the rebels agreed to peace talks.
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Colombo: Sri Lanka&#39;s president and top aides were Monday studying the latest Tamil Tiger threat to return to their protracted war amid mounting tension in embattled regions, officials said.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Secretary of State Colin  Powell toured Sri Lanka's tsunami-ravaged south on Friday,  surveying a crippled tourism hub and relief efforts just hours  ahead of a visit by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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Colombo, Nov 27 (UNI) The LTTE today threatened to resume the &#39;&#39;freedom struggle&#39;&#39; if the Sri Lankan Government did not resume the peace talks on the basis of its proposal for an interim self-rule.
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The Japanese peace envoy to Sri Lanka says that the end of the ceasefire may make it necessary to review Japanese aid.
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The Sri Lankan government urged separatist rebels Monday to resume stalled peace talks before the country descends into all-out civil war.
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The Italian and U.S. Ambassadors to Sri Lanka were slightly injured on Tuesday when Tamil Tiger rebels shelled a delegation of diplomats led by the island's human rights minister, officials said.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers told Norway's special peace envoy on Tuesday they are prepared to meet the government for crunch peace talks in Oslo in late October, a source close to the negotiations told Reuters, in a move welcomed as "positive" by the government.
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Sri Lanka's troops and Tamil rebels were locked in fierce fighting Sunday in the island's north, the two sides said as the top military chief vowed to kill 3,000 guerrillas by June.
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COLOMBO : Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger guerrillas declared they will renew armed struggle unless the Colombo government immediately agrees to revive peace talks based on a rebel blueprint for self-rule.
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More than 40 rebels and 10 government troops die in fresh fighting in northern Sri Lanka, the military says.