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Syrian warplanes pounded rebel targets in two northern provinces on Thursday as President Bashar Assad's troops pushed on with an offensive to reclaim more territory from the opposition.

An ally of Sri Lankan government has warned against holding elections in the Tamil-dominated northern province, saying polls without corrective action will legalise the distorted demography in the region.

Sri Lankan Government has announced that only 96 square kilometer area is left to be demined in the war hit Northern Province.The Economic Development Ministry said that since the end of the civil war in 2009, over 2000 square Kilometers of mined land, which ...

The delegation is scheduled to visit Tamil-dominated Jaffna city, the capital of Sri Lanka's Northern Province.

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Giving an indication of the scale of militarization in the war-torn northern and eastern provinces, Sri Lankan Tamil MP Suresh Premachandran on Thursday claimed that the Rajapaksa government has deployed one armyperson for every five Tamils in the region.

Voters in the Tamil-dominated Northern Province, where last election was held in 1988, will receive poll education, including how to obtain ID cards ahead of the key provincial elections.

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Syria's state news agency accused rebels on Tuesday of using chemical weapons in an attack in the northern province of Aleppo which it said killed 15 people.