Sri Lanka opposition parliamentarian shot dead
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A Sri Lankan opposition minority Tamil parliamentarian was shot and killed on Tuesday, the military said.
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NAROK, Kenya  - One man was killed in ethnic violence on Friday when Kenyan opposition protests against a disputed election spread to an area near the famed Maasai Mara game reserve in the south of the country.
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: A renegade leader of the Tamil Tigers has been killed in a firefight in Sri Lankaâs restive east, the rebel group said today, the latest in a rash of killings marring a truce that halted two decades of civil war.
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COLOMBO Tamil Tiger rebels killed the No. 2 leader of a renegade guerrilla faction involved in fighting between the two groups amid a surge in violence that has threatened Sri Lanka&#39;s fragile cease-fire, military and rebel sources said Thursday.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - One person was killed and   several others wounded when a car exploded outside Somalia's   parliament in Baidoa on Monday in an assassination attempt on   President Abdullahi Yusuf, Somalia's foreign minister said.
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About 30 Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed in overnight clashes in the east of Sri Lanka, the army says.
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WANA: Unidentified gunmen shot dead an ethnic Pashtun politician early on Wednesday in a drive-by attack, officials said. Shah Alam Wazir, 55, leader of the Pushtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP), was believed
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Two unidentified gunmen Wednesday shot dead a politician named Shah Alam Wazir in Pakistan&#39;s tribal region, according to private News Network of International.
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Sri Lankan troops shot dead at least 12 Tamil Tiger rebels in three separate clashes in the island&#39;s north, the defence ministry here said Thursday.
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The brother of the man who led a split in Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebel group is shot and killed, reports say.
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A prominent 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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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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Bangladesh opposition Awami League&#39;s central leader Ivy Rahman, fatally wounded in the Aug 21 bomb attack on the party rally in Dhaka, died in the army hospital on Tuesday.
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At least one protester was fatally shot by Myanmar security forces Wednesday, according to opposition reports, amid fears that the anticipated crackdown in Myanmar has begun.
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Anti-Syrian Cabinet minister killed in shooting in Beirut suburb making him the third prominent Lebanese figure to be assassinated in the past two years
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Gunmen have shot dead two civilians in Sri Lanka&#39;s northern Jaffna peninsula, officials said Sunday as the government and Tamil Tigers blamed each other for the latest in a string of such killings.
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Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka have killed four people, including a leader of a renegade guerilla faction, in growing factional violence that is threatening the country&#39;s fragile cease-fire.