New years' halt to Sri Lanka fighting: president

2009/04/12 04:00:29 @Reuters: International News

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military will not attack the Tamil Tigers for the next three days to allow thousands of civilians to escape a no-fire zone where they are being held by the separatists, the president said Sunday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=KeaBXwvgR10:5y4pKUWG3ik:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=KeaBXwvgR10:5y4pKUWG3ik:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=KeaBXwvgR10:5y4pKUWG3ik:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=KeaBXwvgR10:5y4pKUWG3ik:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=KeaBXwvgR10:5y4pKUWG3ik:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/KeaBXwvgR10" height="1" width="1"/
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