Labourer Simon Perera answers his mobile phone in Colombo’s main wholesale market yesterday Perera loads sacks of vegatables and fruits from wholesale dealers onto lorries and uses his phone to keep in touch with his clients. REUTERS

Tea Market shows dramatic improvement

The Tea Market showed a dramatic improvement yesterday with most of the produce on offer being sold at better prices despite the on-going war in Iraq, the government said yesterday.
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LTTE denies involvement in attack on Muditha

by Ranga Jayasuriya and Manjula Fernando

The LTTE yesterday denied involvement in an abortive attack on the Navy vessel Lanka Muditha on Monday, but the Security Forces insisted that the Sea Tigers were responsible for the attack.
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Civilians killed as suicide bomb fears rise

BAGHDAD, Tuesday (Reuters) - US Marines killed an unarmed Iraqi at a checkpoint south of Baghdad on Tuesday, just hours after seven women and children died in a similar shooting, providing new fuel for Arab fury over the war.
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