41.   Tamil separatists have agreed to release a North Korean ship they had seized after killing one of the sailors last month, a humanitarian group said Friday.

42.   Tamil separatists said on Thursday they will not release the eight crewmen of a ferry they seized unless Sri Lanka frees two imprisoned female guerrillas.

43.   Tamil separatists said Thursday they will not release the eight crewmen of a ferry they seized unless Sri Lanka frees two imprisoned female guerrillas.

44.   Sri Lanka is in the middle of a war with Tamil separatists.

45.   Sri Lanka plans to increase its military expenditure next year to cope up with an escalating war against Tamil separatists, the government said Wednesday.

46.   Sri Lankan troops launched a new attack in their efforts to capture a key northern highway from Tamil separatists, a military spokesman said Monday.

47.   Soldiers recovered the bodies of the Tamil separatists from two camps.

48.   That was before ethnic Tamil separatists took up arms against the government, controlled by the Sinhalese ethnic majority.

49.   Sri Lanka has one international airport and is trying to boost tourism, which has been hit by an ongoing ethnic war against Tamil separatists.

50.   Sri Lanka is in the midst of a civil war with Tamil separatists who often target the capital, Colombo, with bomb attacks and shootings.