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/ 1 February 2010
Sri Lanka’s president on Monday sacked a dozen senior military officers whom the Defence Ministry said were a "direct threat to national security".
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/ 27 January 2010
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse won a bruising re-election battle on Wednesday that left his main rival in apparent fear of assassination.
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/ 6 February 2009
Sri Lankan troops on Friday captured more Tamil Tiger bases, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon raised fresh concerns for civilians trapped in the war zone.
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/ 29 January 2009
International rights groups pressed for urgent action to save up to 250 000 civilians trapped in northern Sri Lanka.
The death toll from a bomb that ripped through a bus outside the Sri Lankan capital rose to 26 on Saturday after two more passengers died of their injuries, police said. The bomb exploded inside the overcrowded bus, blowing off its roof, as it pulled out of the Piliyandala terminal into rush-hour traffic on Friday.
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/ 16 December 2007
England and Sri Lanka will mark one of cricket’s most poignant moments when they contest the third Test at the previously tsunami-ravaged Galle International Stadium from Tuesday. The stadium, situated close to the Indian Ocean in the country’s coastal south, was destroyed by the Asian tsunami in 2004.