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COLOMBO: The army is stepping up demining former rebel-held areas of northern Sri Lanka so that hundreds of thousands of Tamil war refugees can be released from internment camps and return to the region, an army commander said yesterday. The government has come under increasing pressure to release the nearly 300 000 ethnic minority Tamils detained at government-run camps.

PARIS: French workers facing lay-offs have threatened to dump a toxic substance into the River Seine if their demands for extra compensation are not met, unions said yesterday. It is the latest in a series of threats and other headline-grabbing actions this year by French employees of companies ...

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