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The Starting Point is a snapshot of the news stories that occurred overnight. Look for updates throughout the day on Yahoo! News and in the news box on Yahoo.com.
Top story overnight: Two days of shelling across Sri Lanka's northern war zone killed at least 430 ethnic Tamil civilians, The Associated Press reported. In response, a coalition of international human rights groups called for the U.N. Security Council to hold talks on the conflict. At the time of this writing, nearly 6,500 civilians have been killed in three months of fighting this year.