Rockets and rubble: Sri Lanka troops press campaign
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KANKASANTURAI, Sri Lanka  - Firing artillery   shells toward Tamil Tiger positions as fighting flares despite   peace talk pledges, Sri Lankan gunner Herath Rajaratne longs   for the day he can return to his family and civilian life.
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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka -- Members of the Tamil Tigers, separatist rebels who control large swaths of Sri Lanka's north and east, are appealing to international organizations to bypass the central government and send aid directly to the tsunami-devastated regions within their territories, saying they have received little help in the 10 days since the disaster.
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Heavy fighting raged in northern Sri Lanka on Monday, the defence ministry said, reporting that 49 Tamil Tiger rebels and two soldiers were killed in weekend battles.
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Government troops killed up to 44 separatist rebels in clashes in northern and eastern Sri Lanka while destroying three small camps in the insurgents' last eastern stronghold, the military said Wednesday. The guerrillas disputed the death toll figures.
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Sri Lanka's military on Wednesday accused the Tamil Tigers of using a U.N.-led aid convoy as a smokescreen to move rebel fighters and munitions toward their defense lines.
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Sri Lanka's army mounted an offensive   to capture rebel-held territory south of the strategic   northeastern harbour of Trincomalee on Friday, officials said,   and a naval battle broke out off the island's northern tip.
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Authorities and aid agencies in Sri Lanka are carrying out the relief effort using maps produced by a team of Britons.
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POTTUVIL, Sri Lanka (CP) - Canadian soldiers hit the beach here Saturday, but it was no holiday. They inflated three five-metre zodiac-like boats that will be used to ferry people and goods across scenic Arugam Bay on the southeast coast.
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Sri Lankan helicopter gunships rocketed Tamil Tigers in the island's far northeast on Tuesday, the military said, forecasting heavy rebel losses -- but there was no immediate word on casualties.
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The Tamil Tigers' nascent air wing dropped two bombs on an air force base in north Sri Lanka before dawn on Monday, the military said, the latest daring air assault amid renewed civil war.
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Heavy artillery exchanges rocked northern Sri Lanka as the European Union, after banning the Tamil Tigers earlier in the week, promised further action to push the rebels and the government back to the negotiating table.
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Sri Lanka's military battled Tamil Tiger rebels with tanks and fighter jets along a shared "border" in the island's east on Thursday, with each side blaming the other for the outbreak of fighting.
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Aid teams in Sri Lanka battle the aftermath of flash floods as they try to prevent the spread of disease among survivors.
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Sri Lankan security forces are on red alert, officials said, as Tamil Tiger rebels remembered 18,742 comrades killed in their decades-long campaign for a separate homeland.
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Roadside blast and attack on army vehicle come as ceasefire with Sri Lankan government runs out
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The fear of bomb attacks in Sri Lanka following an upsurge in violence has spawned extra security checks, making daily life more difficult, but the hassle has also created unexpected marketing opportunities, according to advertising specialists.
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Sri Lanka's military said on Friday troops had killed 35 Tamil Tigers in a series of land clashes in the island's north in 24 hours as the death toll from renewed civil war climbs inexorably higher.