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  CRISIS-HIT Sri Lanka’s inflation hit a record high for the sixth consecutive month, official data showed on Friday (22) as the government asked the...

  Hundreds of Rohingya migrants from Myanmar escaped a detention centre in Malaysia on Wednesday after a riot broke out, with six killed on a...

  Sri Lanka called out the military on Thursday to bolster security ahead of a funeral for the first person killed during weeks of running...

  Fresh anti-government protests spread across Sri Lanka Wednesday, a day after police shot dead a demonstrator and triggered international condemnation just as the crisis-hit...

  Sri Lanka police shot dead a protester and wounded 24 others on Tuesday in the first fatal clash with residents demonstrating against the government...

THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND will consider providing quick financial assistance to debt-burdened Sri Lanka following representations by India, the island nation’s finance ministry said...

PAKISTAN prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has written a letter to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi pitching for “meaningful” engagement between the two countries. Sharif’s communication...