Fiji rebels send out death threat
Rebels holding Fiji's elected Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and other government members hostage threatened to execute them unless their demands are met even as two influential ethnic groups pledged their support for the rebels.



Tripura ethnic violence toll rises to 30
In continued violence in Tripura banned NLFT rebels massacred at least 15 persons, including three children and five women and injured ten others last night in West district, official sources said.



Hand-to-hand combat begins in the battle for Jaffna
Heavy fighting broke out in the Jaffna peninsula as the Sri Lankan Army and the LTTE engaged in fierce hand-to-hand battles in the war-torn region ahead of a high-level Norwegian delegation's visit, to broker peace talks between the warring sides.



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