Sri Lanka President calls for talks with Tigers:

"In return of my trust, I want the LTTE to trust us"

PRESIDENT Mahinda Rajapakse, on Sunday called for immediate talks with the Tamil Tiger rebels to halt spiraling violence threatening Sri Lanka's four-year-old ceasefire and taking this tropical island again toward the brink of war.

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MNA launches signature campaign

THE Muslim National Alliance (MNA) launched its campaign to collect a hundred thousand signatures on a petition to demand, among other issues, that the Muslim community be included as a separate body in any future peace talks to resolve the ethnic conflict.

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