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4073 LTTE cadres killed in ongoing battles: Lankan Army

Longstanding fight between Tamil rebels and Sri Lankan Army seems to be coming to an end. The bitter civil war has gripped the tiny island country for 25 years. The deadly battle is waged for identity politics...

Scores Dead in Israeli Raid on Gaza

Dear Viewers Please keep watching the Images and the video clips because i will update theses two. " At least 195 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed in an Israeli aerial bombardment on...

India - Two terrorists captured are British nationals: Reports

" British newspaper, Daily Mail, has reported that two of the terrorists captured by Indian security forces are British nationals of Pakistani origin. Attributing to sources in the Maharashtra government, the paper claimed that as many as eight terrorists were captured...

Lankan forces capture strategic area in LTTE stronghold

The Sri Lankan forces have intensified their campaign against rebel LTTE in last months. The government troops have made dramatic progress on the northern fronts, seizing a series of rebel bases and chunks of...

Sri Lanka fighting rages, at least 67 killed

Tamils have been fighting for a separate homeland for long time and even control some part of Sri Lanka close to sea coast. Fighting under LTTE tamil rebels have acquired government status and even have their...

Sri Lanka fighting kills 22 Tamil rebels

Fight between rebel Tamil tigers and the Sri Lankan air force (SLAF) have intensified. Sri Lankan air force launched several attacks including one on a sea tiger base in the last 24 hours destroying training camps and disrupting meetings of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...

Afghan, NATO forces rout Taliban (Remember the Prison Escapees?)

I'm thinking some of the water cooler talk around the terrorist office went something like this: "We should have stayed in jail." They've been routed."Afghan and NATO-led forces killed or wounded hundreds of Taliban on Thursday in an offensive to clear the militants from...

Oil Experts State to G8 Summit: "There's No Oil Shortage"

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA statement many of us figured out, there is no Oil Shortage, just Oil speculators driving up the price of oil to bolster their profits, the trickle effect caused food...

Renewed fighting erupts in crisis-torn Lebanon

The Lebanese army is doing it's best to keep the country from erupting into an all-out civil war, but it's proving to be an uphill battle."BEIRUT (AFP) — Fierce fighting erupted in northern Lebanon on Monday,...

Lebanon in turmoil as Shiite gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods

UPDATE: 1:53PM ESTAfter three days of deadly street battles, Hezbollah has seized control of West Beirut, pushing Lebanon dangerously close to an all-out civil war.At least 11 people have been killed so...

Mexico drug gang clashes kill 15 in border city of Tijuana

"Gun battles between rival factions of a Mexican drugs cartel have left at least 15 people dead in the city of Tijuana, near the border with the US.Police said all the dead were from the Arellano Felix cartel, which has come under pressure from a rival gang.Two were wearing...

Roskilde Festival Lineup Announced

Roskilde is massive, manic, music magic. It's the only multi-day, 80,000+ attendee festival that I've ever attended which is, gulp, ten years ago this summer. But with this kind of a line-up, maybe this is the...

Iraq Dismisses 1,300 After Basra Offensive

After mass desertions during the Basra operation, conducted by the Iraqi government with little cooordination with the Americans, the Iraqi army has dismissed almost 1500 soldiers."The Iraqi government has...

French Muslim war graves defaced

Nearly 150 graves of French Muslim soldiers were defaced by vandals at  the Notre Dame de Lorette cemetery."A pig's head was hung from one headstone and slogans insulting Islam and France's Muslim justice minister were daubed on other graves.President Nicolas Sarkozy...

Kanye, Radiohead, Rage, NIN, Wilco at Lollapalooza

The full Lollapalooza 2008 lineup will be announced on Monday, but this is a great start to the festival's buzz."The organizers of Lollapalooza have stacked the deck this year with a slate of headliners that is...

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