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Sri Lanka deploys thousands of troops as flood toll hits 177
May 29, 2017 17:05Sri Lanka has deployed thousands of troops to supply aid to nearly half a million people dislodged by the island country's worst flooding for more than a decade, which has so far claimed nearly 180 lives.
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Sri Lanka steps up aid as monsoon toll exceeds 150
May 28, 2017 15:44Emergency teams have rushed food and water to half a million Sri Lankans displaced by the island's worst flooding for more than a decade, as the death toll climbed to 151.
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Death toll of landslides, floods in Sri Lanka reaches 113
May 27, 2017 14:59Death toll from recent landslides and floods, triggered by monsoon, in Sri Lanka has reached 113, as the island nation has sought international assistance.
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India sends relief to Sri Lanka as monsoon kills over 100
May 27, 2017 09:56India joined Sri Lanka’s relief operation Saturday as 230,000 people were driven from their homes after an intense monsoon deluge killed at least 103 people.
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Monsoon floods, landslides kill 91 in Sri Lanka
May 26, 2017 15:31Flooding and landslides have killed at least 91 people and left another 110 missing in Sri Lanka as the monsoon set in Friday, dumping record rainfalls in many parts of the island, authorities say.
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Rescue operations continue in Sri Lanka dump collapse
Apr 17, 2017 09:46Rescuers were digging Monday through heaps of mud and trash that collapsed onto a clutch of homes near a Sri Lankan garbage dump, killing at least 29 people and possibly burying dozens more.
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Sri Lanka rejects UN call for probe into civil war atrocities
Mar 05, 2017 17:01Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has rejected a United Nations call for allowing international judges to investigate alleged crimes during the country’s civil war era.
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Iran underlines private sector willingness to make investment in Sri Lanka
Mar 04, 2017 11:00Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iranian firms and companies are ready to widen presence in Sri Lankan market and invest in its technical and engineering sectors.
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‘Sri Lanka interested in buying oil from Iran’
Jan 15, 2017 09:52Sri Lanka says it is still interested in purchasing crude oil as well as oil products from Iran.
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Thousands evacuated after fire, blasts at Sri Lankan army camp
Jun 06, 2016 08:28Thousands of people have been evacuated from areas near Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, where a fire at an ammunition depot has caused a series of explosions.