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/ 26 January 2009
Sri Lankan troops surged forward on Monday after seizing the last big town held by Tamil Tiger separatists.
Sri Lankan soldiers pressured the Tamil Tigers’ last stronghold on the Jaffna Peninsula on Wednesday
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/ 17 December 2008
Sri Lankan troops assaulted the outskirts of the separatist Tamil Tigers’ self-proclaimed capital on Wednesday, the military said.
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/ 3 December 2008
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was due in New Delhi on Wednesday as part of intense US efforts to ease tension between India and Pakistan.
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/ 2 December 2008
Diplomatic efforts to prevent India and Pakistan from heading toward a confrontation over the Mumbai attacks intensified on Tuesday.
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/ 3 September 2008
Battles between Sri Lanka’s military and separatist Tamil Tiger guerrillas killed dozens of people, the military said on Wednesday.
A Kenyan Cabinet minister and assistant minister died on Tuesday along with two others in the crash of a light plane near the Masai Mara game reserve.
Kenya swore in a power-sharing government on Thursday to soothe fury over a disputed election that plunged the East African country into a bloody crisis. ”Our people are now in the process of reconciliation,” President Mwai Kibaki said at the ceremony, nearly four months after the December 27 poll that triggered extreme violence.
Kenya’s president and future prime minister said on Sunday they had made ”substantial progress” at talks to end an impasse over a power-sharing Cabinet and expected to clinch a deal on Monday. The two sides had planned to name the Cabinet on Sunday, but disagreement over the division of ministries scuttled that plan.
Kenya’s president and opposition leader met to break an impasse over the naming of a power-sharing Cabinet and the government said the ministerial line-up would be unveiled later on Sunday. The Cabinet is a critical part of a deal brokered in February to end the East African nation’s bloodiest political crisis.