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We have started to collect the most important news related to Sri Lanka in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
Thousands of people in flooded areas of northern Sri Lanka are without shelter and need help, a human rights group says.
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Sri Lanka's army says it has recaptured a key northern town near the Tamil Tigers' stronghold of Kilinochchi.
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Tamil Tiger leader Prabhakaran says Sri Lanka's government is dreaming if it expects outright military victory.
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The leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers is to make a speech as troops close in on his de facto capital of Kilinochchi.
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The Sri Lankan army says its forces will soon capture the Tamil Tiger rebels' stronghold of Kilinochchi.
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The Sri Lankan army says it has captured more territory from the Tamil Tigers as it tries to take the rebels' stronghold.
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The Sri Lankan army says an offensive is on to try to take Kilinochchi, the Tamil Tiger rebels' de facto capital in the north.
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As Sri Lanka claims to be winning the war against the Tamil Tigers, Roland Buerk looks at the conflict's potential legacy.
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Sri Lankan troops have captured the first line of defence of Tamil Tiger rebels on the Jaffna peninsula, the army says.
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Amnesty International urges the Sri Lankan government to allow aid to reach more than 300,000 people displaced by fighting.
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Sri Lankan soldiers have entered the strategically important Tamil Tiger stronghold of Pooneryn, the defence ministry says.
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Breakaway former rebels in Sri Lanka will disarm within months and be intergrated into the security forces, their leader says.
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Sri Lanka's navy destroys four rebel boats and kills 14 Tamil Tigers in a clash in the north, the government says.
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Sri Lanka's military blames Tamil Tiger rebels for launching air strikes in the north-west and in Colombo.
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United KingdomThe West Indies have been lined up to play England if Sri Lanka scrap their 2009 tour, BBC Sport understands.
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India says it is sending food to Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka caught up in a war between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels.
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The Sri Lankan defence ministry says it is suspending the release of casualty figures during the current fighting in the north of the country.
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Military operations to crush the Tamil Tigers are being carried out with the fewest possible civilian casualties, Sri Lanka's foreign minister says.
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Tamil Tiger rebels attack two merchant ships carrying supplies to Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, defence officials say.
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At least 33 soldiers were killed fighting Tamil Tiger rebels in northern Sri Lanka over the weekend, the government says.
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A UN convoy reaches rebel-held northern Sri Lanka with food for 200,000 displaced people, after it was delayed a day by fighting.
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A United Nations convoy carrying food into rebel-held northern Sri Lanka turns back after coming under artillery fire.
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Fear in Sri Lankan rebel town as fighting gets closer
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Police in and around the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, are arresting "five to 10 Tamils" every day, a government minister says.
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A suspected suicide bomber in Sri Lanka kills at least one person in an attack targeting a government minister, officials say.
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A suicide blast in a Sri Lankan town kills a former general and at least 26 other people, the defence ministry says.
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Many civilians are reported to be fleeing the northern Sri Lankan town of Kilinochchi in the face of more air force attacks.
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The UN in Sri Lanka says it will send food later this week to thousands of civilians displaced by fighting in the north.
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Sri Lanka's powerful defence secretary says the government is on the verge of victory against Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Eyewitness account of the war in northern Sri Lanka
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Sri Lankan police start registering thousands of people, nearly all Tamils, who have fled the war-torn north for the capital.
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