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By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 14 August 2006 Soldier stands near site of an explosion in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, August 14, 2006 The United Nations has confirmed that at least 19 students were killed by a bomb in eastern Sri Lanka. Hours later, an
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 17 April 2006 Erik Solheim, center, with Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka A top Norwegian envoy facilitating Sri Lanka's peace talks says mediators will continue to talk to repr
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 25 April 2006 Soldier stands guard at the entrance of the army headquarters after a suicide bomb attack in Colombo In Sri Lanka, a suicide bomb attack has critically injur
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 07 January 2006 In Sri Lanka, at least 13 sailors have been killed in an attack on a naval vessel by suspected ethnic Tamil rebels. Soldiers of Sri Lankan Air Force stand
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 25 January 2006 Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels have agreed to hold new talks in Switzerland aimed at shoring up their deteriorating peace agreement. Norwegia
With Sri Lanka's economy stifled by 25 years of war, many here are weighing the benefits of a peace dividend, as the conflict nears an end - just in time for the global economic slump. Rebels examine their weapons in this handout picture released by
The U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he will leave Friday for a two-day visit to Sri Lanka to see first-hand the damage done by the fighting between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. Mr. Ban, who spoke to reporters at the U.N. Europea
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 11 October 2006 New fighting has erupted in Sri Lanka between government forces and the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels before peace talks scheduled for the end of the month. The decision to hold talks had raised hopes of
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 14 June 2007 A foreign aid worker has been shot by navy troops in northeastern Sri Lanka, where the government is battling Tamil rebels. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, concerns about security of aid workers ar
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 10 November 2006 A prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician has been gunned down in Colombo, even as more clashes were reported at sea between the navy and ethnic Tamil rebels. The dead politician, a member of a party linke
By Steve Herman Washington 17 January 2007 Hopes for a political solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict appear to have suffered a new setback. Media in the region report that Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse has rejected an appeal by former p
By Steve Herman Pondicherry, India 03 September 2007 India has been celebrating the 60th anniversary of its independence from the British Raj. But the British were not the only colonizers on the subcontinent in the mid-20th century. While the Union J
By Steve Herman New Delhi 20 June 2007 Sri Lanka's military says land and sea clashes in the past day have left about 70 Tamil rebels dead. VOA's Steve Herman reports from New Delhi that the fighting in the east of the country comes before a widely a
In Sri Lanka, aid agencies say a crowded hospital in the northern war zone has been shelled, killing at least nine people. The attack on the hospital comes amid growing concerns for an estimated 250,000 civilians caught in the fighting between the g
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 18 September 2009 A boy stands in a Menik Farm displaced persons camp in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka (May 2009 file photo) Sri Lanka has pledged to send home nearly 300,000 ethnic Tamils being held in refugee camps. The assuranc