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...Lanka's bitter, 25-year-old civil war - Asia's longest-running conflict - has never been closer to a military solution. Since a cease-fire disintegrated in 2005, steady government advances first pushed out the L.T.T.E. from their positions in the island nation's east, then cut off most of the maritime smuggling networks supplying the insurgency in its northern stronghold. The L.T.T.E.'s de facto capital, Kilinochchi, is encircled by troops approaching on three fronts...
...hectares) of land in Southern California before gentler winds allowed firefighters to gain control of the blazes. A total of 800 homes were destroyed in the counties surrounding Los Angeles, and thousands of residents were forced to evacuate. This year the drought-plagued region has faced an almost relentless fire season, with 9,603 fires so far, up from 5,961 in 2007. Just over a year ago, the state endured a rash of immense wildfires that destroyed 2,000 homes and displaced 640,000 people...
...Washington G-20 Gluttony Delegates at the summit on the world financial crisis are drawing fire for their luxurious banquet, which included quail, lamb and bottles of 2003 Shafer Cabernet Hillside Select that can cost...
...Brattle Street store, opened in 1979, was one of the chain’s first Boston-area establishments. While Crate & Barrel has no current plans to close its other Cambridge store on Mass. Ave, a fire ravaged its Back Bay outpost this past weekend, shutting that branch down indefinitely...
...crews from carrying weapons. So when bands of pirates approach a target ship at high speed with machine guns and RPGs blazing, there's little fighting back that the crew can do. Reports to the International Maritime Bureau on hijackings detail crews using water shot from fire hoses, evasive maneuvers that sometimes generate waves to keep the pirates at bay and "Mayday" calls to other ships as the key defenses against pirates...