Sri Lankan Tamil MP assassinated in temple
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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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Lebanese Christian cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel, an outspoken critic of Syria, was assassinated near Beirut on Tuesday, security sources said.
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Lebanon's Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel was assassinated near Beirut on Tuesday, security sources said.
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An anti-Syrian MP has been killed in a car bombing in a mainly Christian suburb of Beirut, officials say.
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The leader of a splinter faction of   Nepal's Maoist rebels said on Sunday his group had shot and   killed a member of the Himalayan nation's parliament.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels shot dead a military informer near the Sri Lankan capital, police said.
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Three rebels, a policeman and a security guard were killed in Sri Lanka's restive eastern province as Britain's junior foreign minister Kim Howells toured projects in the area funded by the former colonial power.
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At least five people are killed in a suspected suicide attack on the main railway station in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo.
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An opposition MP is killed in Kenya, as violence continues over last month's disputed election.
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Five Muslim civilians were killed in shell attacks in the Sri Lankan town of Muttur, raising the death toll from clashes between the army and Tamil rebels to 26, a Muslim legislator said.
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A Sri Lankan government minister died on the operating table on Tuesday after his vehicle was targeted by a suspected Tamil Tiger roadside bomb north of the capital, a senior hospital official said.
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Colombo, Sept. 23. (PTI): The brother of renegade LTTE leader Karuna was shot dead today together with two of his aides in eastern Sri Lanka in worsening factional fighting, military sources said.
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An opposition lawmaker died at a hospital shortly after he was wounded in a shooting near the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Tuesday, a hospital official said.
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The intelligence head of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels is killed, as violence continues in the north of the island.
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A policeman shot and killed an opposition lawmaker Thursday in what authorities say was a crime of passion over a woman. But machete-wielding protesters convinced it was an assassination clashed with police, leaving at least three dead.
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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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An opposition lawmaker was gunned down by a police officer in the second fatal shooting of an opposition legislator this week amid ethnic fighting.