Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka president to name new PM as unrest simmers amid economic crisis
Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned this week after his supporters attacked anti-government protesters and ran riot in …
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Sri Lanka unrest: shoot on sight order issued as troops deployed in Colombo
Fears grow path is being laid for a military takeover, although this was denied by top defence officialTroops …
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Sri Lanka: protesters set ministers’ homes on fire as economic crisis deepens – video report
Sri Lanka’s prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has resigned after five people were killed in violent protests …
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Sri Lanka troops rescue ex-PM as houses torched in deadly night of unrest
Mahinda Rajapaksa rescued in pre-dawn military operation after day of protests in which five people were kille…
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Sri Lanka is the first domino to fall in the face of a global debt crisis
The south Asian country is the first to buckle under economic pressures compounded by Russia’s war on Ukraine,…
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Sri Lanka’s PM resigns after weeks of protests over economic crisis
Police are imposing nationwide curfew following violence at protest site in ColomboSri Lanka’s prime minister,…
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Sri Lankan president calls second state of emergency in five weeks
Police disperse students with teargas and water cannon as national strike over economic crisis takes placeSri …
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Why is the Australian prime minister cooking apparently raw chicken curry?
Scott Morrison has made curry night part of his carefully manufactured image, but this one didn’t go down so w…
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Sri Lanka’s humanitarian crisis could be the start of a political upheaval | Charu Lata Hogg
Severe shortages of fuel, food and medicine appear to have unified Sri Lankans against the ruling Rajapaksa fa…
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‘It will be hard to find a farmer left’: Sri Lanka reels from rash fertiliser ban
Harvests have collapsed, and the way President Rajapaksa introduced the policy angered even organic farmersDri…
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What’s behind the economic implosion in Sri Lanka?
An economic crisis in Sri Lanka is now threatening starvation for the poorest citizens. Hannah Ellis-Petersen …
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Sri Lanka: One dead and several wounded as police shoot protesters
Protests erupted in response to rising fuel prices and severe economic crisisOne person has died and several p…
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‘Gota go home’: desperate Sri Lankans call for President Rajapaksa to quit
Strongman Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s position looks weak amid an economic crisis that threatens to turn into starvat…
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Closer inspection of UK jobs market reveals economic scars of Covid | Larry Elliott
While the pandemic has not led to a jump in unemployment, its impact on the over-50s and public sector staff i…
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Sri Lanka nearly out of medicine as doctors warn toll from crisis could surpass Covid
Emergency surgery may soon be impossible, president told, while protests continue amid worsening economic down…