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The fight over the Air Force’s premier fighter jet, the F-22 Raptor, is zooming toward a showdown. On Wednesday, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) announced he was postponing a vote on a measure that would have stripped $1.75 billion from the defense authorization...
Tags: Pentagon Press, war zone, Geoff Morrell, Robert Gates, House Appropriations Defense, press secretary, Afghanistan, Iraq, ban smokes, zone smokes
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian, Mr.S.Kanagaretnam, was taken for questioning by the Sri Lanka police from Chettikulam internment camp Thursday morning, sources in Vavuniyaa said. Kanagaratnam arrived with his family from Mu'l'li-vaaykkaal...
Tags: Sri Lanka, Mr Ban, war zone, general ban, Vavuniyaa
All the Sri Lankan's are awaiting for a breathtaking moment to hear the greatest news in the era from the Hon. President Mahinda Rajapaksha that the LTTE terrorists were defeated in Sri Lankan soil. The breaking news bulletins emerged from the war zone...
Speaking on a visit to Jordan, Mahinda Rajapakse said he would return home to a nation totally free from the "barbaric acts" of the rebel group. There was no word from the president on the fate of the last few rebel fighters and leaders, thought to be...
Tags: Sri Lankan Army, tamils tigers, war zone, tigers chief, Tamil Tigers, Colombo, Soosai
According to the latest news released from the war zone in Sri Lanka, the war has reached the final stage and it is expected that an amazing news can be heard very soon . It is said that the family members of the Sea Tiger Leader leader Soosai...
Tags: Sri Lanka, No Fire Zone, LTTE, Tamil Tigers, Ealam, Sri Lanka War, Soosais family, Sea Tiger leader, War Zone
Ontario's premier called on Ottawa and the United Nations Thursday to pressure all sides to end the Sri Lanka war between the government and the Tamil Tigers. Aid workers and international observers also must be allowed to enter into the northern Sri...
Tags: Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, tamils tigers, sri lankan, war zone, Central Asia, India, lankan government
We have not used heavy weapons in the area where the Tamilnet says civilians had been killed." Shanmugarajah said that some government medical supplies had reached the zone in recent days, but staff and supply shortages meant that the situation was "overwhelming".
Tags: Sri Lanka Army, Sri Lankan, war zone, web site, Tamil Tigers, artillery barrage, northern war
Artillery shells fired by the Sri Lankan military have hit a makeshift hospital in the country's northeastern war zone killing at least 64 people, according to a health official. Patients and bystanders died in two attacks on Saturday, while another 87...
Tags: Sri Lanka, makeshift hospital, sri lankan, lankan army, war zone, lanka hospital, health official, artillery shelled
Japan on Friday announced an emergency grant aid of $4 million for Sri Lanka to meet the immediate needs of an estimated two lakh Internally Displaced Persons lodged in government-run temporary shelter homes. The announcement coincided with the three-day...
Tags: Sri Lanka Navy, sri lankan, war zone, Tamil Tigers
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband also said the talks had ended without a breakthrough, telling Sri Lanka that international calls for a ceasefire were only to save civilians and not to help the Tamil Tigers. Now is the time for the fighting...
Tags: Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, David Miliband, war zone, defence secretary