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U.S. charges billionaire Rajaratnam with record insider trading
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam and five executives from some of the most prestigious U.S. companies were charged on Friday with the largest hedge fund insider-trading scheme ever.   Nations:Sri Lanka U.S.   Activities:2009 Galleon Insider Trading   Source:(Reuters)     2009-10-16

Sri Lanka rebels offer to lay down arms
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The Tamil Tiger rebels admitted defeat in their 25-year-old war with the Sri Lankan government Sunday, offering to lay down their guns as government forces swept across their last strongholds in the northeast.   Nations:Sri Lanka India   Source:(AP)     2009-05-17

Sri Lanka urges civilians to flee war zone
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka's government dropped leaflets across the northern war zone Friday urging civilians to flee the fighting amid accusations the military pounded the area with artillery shells that killed at least 10 civilians.   Nations:Sri Lanka   Source:(AP)     2009-05-01

Referee in deadly Pakistan ambush says police fled
LAHORE, Pakistan - A referee accused Pakistani police of abandoning the convoy carrying Sri Lanka's cricket team as a deadly militant ambush began, and video released Wednesday showed gunmen apparently escaping on an empty street as other attackers casually walked away.   Nations:Pakistan Sri Lanka Afghanistan India   Source:(AP)     2009-03-04

Eight dead as Sri Lankan cricketers attacked in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) - Masked gunmen opened fire on the Sri Lankan cricket team's bus in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding six team members, police said.   Nations:Sri Lanka India Australia South Africa New Zealand Pakistan   Source:(AFP)     2009-03-02

Faulty gene condemns millions in India to heart disease: study
PARIS (AFP) - Tens of millions of people from the Indian subcontinent are destined to suffer heart disease due to a single genetic mutation, according to a study released Sunday.   Nations:India Sri Lanka Pakistan Bangladesh France Indonesia   Source:(AFP)     2009-01-18

Food Prices: Hunger Strikes
As the sun sets over Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum, a sweet smell wafts through a small house where Malahasen Juma is cooking dinner for her eight children: a handful of onions, chopped and tossed into a pot of steaming maize porridge and leftover vegetables. Until recently Juma would spice up suppers with beef or fish stews. But not now. "Everything is more expensive," she says. "The children need milk, but I cannot afford that. Meat is a luxury now, not a necessity. We are just living at God's mercy."   Nations:India Somalia Uganda Myanmar China Niger   People:Ban Ki-moon Robert Zoellick George W. Bush   Activities:Global Food Crisis   Source:(Time)     2008-06-11

Bus attack kills 25 in Sri Lanka
A bomb and shooting attack blamed on Tamil separatists ripped through a packed civilian bus Wednesday, killing 25 people in southeastern Sri Lanka as the government officially withdrew from a tattered cease-fire with the rebels.   Nations:Sri Lanka     2008-01-16

On Christmas, pope urges end to wars
Pope Benedict XVI issued a Christmas Day appeal Tuesday to political leaders around the globe to find the "wisdom and courage" to end bloody conflicts in Darfur, Iraq, Afghanistan and Congo.   Nations:Somalia Vatican Sri Lanka Lebanon Ethiopia   Activities:Israel-Palestine Conflict Darfur Genocide Crisis     2007-12-26

IOC strips Marion Jones of 5 medals
The IOC formally stripped Marion Jones of her five Olympic medals Wednesday, wiping her name from the record books following her admission that she was a drug cheat.   Nations:Jamaica Nigeria Sri Lanka France   People:Marion Jones     2007-12-12

China plans virtual world for commerce
Your favorite pants are fraying? You may soon be able to order replacements directly from the factory where they were made, according to the chief scientist of an ambitious Chinese Internet project.   Nations:China Sweden Sri Lanka Germany Vietnam     2007-10-15

Quake triggers tsunami in Indonesia
A massive earthquake struck Indonesia on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami in the town of Padang and warnings for much of the Indian Ocean region, authorities said. The quake caused tall buildings to sway in at least four countries.   Nations:Indonesia Singapore India Sri Lanka Australia Malaysia   Activities:2007 Indonesia Quake     2007-09-12

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