Sri Lanka ends ceasefire with Tamil Tigers
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Sri Lanka's government decided on Wednesday to annul a six-year ceasefire agreement with the Tamil Tigers which would allow a full-scale military campaign to recapture the rebels' de facto state in the north of the island.
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The truce between Sri Lanka's warring parties has been stretched to breaking point after one of the bloodiest days in the island's recent history left at least 67 soldiers and Tamil rebels dead.
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Sri Lanka and the rebel Tamil Tigers mark the fifth anniversary of their truce on Friday just a day after the guerrilla group said the deal was all but dead and that their &quot;freedom struggle&quot; would go on.
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Sri Lanka's government has decided to formally annul a ceasefire agreement with the Tamil Tigers, a senior government official said on Wednesday.
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Buddhist monks demanded the government end its tattered ceasefire with Tamil rebels on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of the agreement
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A suspected Tamil Tiger roadside bomb hit a civilian bus in north-central Sri Lanka on Wednesday, bomb squad and military officials said, as a 6-year ceasefire between the state and rebels formally expires.
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The Sri Lankan government formally withdraws from a ceasefire agreement with Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Sri Lankaâs government rejected a Tamil Tiger offer to abide by the terms of a newly scrapped 6-year ceasefire.
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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lankan troops drove Tamil Tiger fighters from their last stronghold in the island's east on Wednesday, the military said, but the rebels vowed to carry on with a guerrilla-style war.
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The government decided Wednesday to withdraw from an internationally brokered cease-fire that had largely collapsed since the resurgence of fighting in Sri Lanka's civil war two years ago, an official said.
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Sri Lanka signalled Friday it wanted to end Norway's position as the island's main peace broker as international concern mounted over Colombo's decision to end a truce with Tamil Tiger guerrillas.
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Sri Lanka's security forces killed 11 Tamil Tiger rebels in a pre-dawn clash in the island's restive east on Saturday, police said, as the worst violence since a 2002 ceasefire grinds on despite peace talk pledges.
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Sri Lanka&#039;s Tamil Tigers on Saturday  extended a deadline for European Union truce monitors to  withdraw from the island, while the army accused the rebels of  shooting dead two soldiers in the northwest.
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A nine-day truce between the Nepalese government and the country's Maoist rebels is due to end on Thursday.
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The Tamil Tigers declared on Monday they now saw no other option than to push for an independent state in what analysts said was notice to Sri Lanka's government that renewed civil war will deepen.
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COLOMBO  - Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger rebels said they conveyed a secret message to President Chandrika Kumaratunga through peace broker Norway on ending a 19-month deadlock on negotiations.
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Pro-Taleban militants in Pakistan's Waziristan region announce an end to their truce with the government.