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At least 15 Tamil Tiger guerrillas and three government soldiers were killed and 45 wounded Thursday in fierce clashes in Sri Lanka's north, the defence ...
Friday 8th August, 2008 Moscow/The president of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia reported 'hundreds of civilians' killed in the separatist capital under ...
Colombo, Sri Lanka, Aug 01: Sri Lankan soldiers attacked Tamil Tiger rebels with artillery and small arms, triggering battles that killed 21 rebels and two ...
Colombo, July 25: Sri Lankan troops fought off an attack early Friday from ethnic Tamil rebels trying to recapture lost territory, as violence in the ...
Colombo, July 23: Sri Lankan troops attacked a rebel bunker line in northern Sri Lanka, sparking a three-hour battle that killed 12 Tamil Tiger fighters, ...
Three British divers swept away by powerful currents in the shark-infested Indian Ocean have revealed how they fought off an attack by a man-eating Komodo dragon, the world's largest lizard.The group drifted 20 miles to the deserted Rinca Island in Indonesia by clinging to a log.They survived on raw shellfish for nearly two days and had to fend off the fearsome 21-stone lizard by throwing rocks at it.The group, which included Charlotte Allin, 24, from Devon, her Thai-based boyfriend Jim Manning, 30, Carlisle-born dive teacher Kathleen Mitchinson, a French man and a Swedish woman - originally set off on an hour-long drift dive off Tawa Besar island, 250 miles east of Bali, on June 5 afternoon but got caught up in treacherous currents.They were discovered by Indonesian fishermen on June 7th after fearing for their lives for nearly two days.A rescue boat spotted the group's inflated orange and red 'safety sausages' laid out as Xs on the rocks of Rinca Island.The group is understood to be suffering from chronic dehydration, sunburn and exhaustion.'We had nothing to eat....
delegation is visiting Islamabad.Pakistan is firm in its resolve to fight terrorism and extremism in accordance with its values and national interest, the official Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) quoted Musharraf as saying while he held meeting with U....