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Stranded Ukrainians find comfort in crisis-hit Sri Lanka

  AS THE sun dips below the Indian Ocean waves, Ukrainian tourist Viktoria Makarenko and her daughter light incense every evening at a temple in...

India starts supplying rice to Sri Lanka

INDIAN traders are exporting 40,000 tons of rice to Sri Lanka in the first major food aid since Colombo secured a credit line from...

Sri Lanka president loses majority amid crisis

SRI LANKA’S president lost his parliamentary majority on Tuesday (5) as former allies urged his resignation, following days of street protests over the island...

Sri Lanka protesters defy curfew after social media shutdown

ARMED troops in Sri Lanka blocked an opposition march staged on Sunday (3) in defiance of an emergency curfew to protest the island nation’s...

Pakistan minister claims ‘plot to kill Imran Khan reported’

PAKISTAN’S information minister Fawad Chaudhry on Friday (1) claimed that a plot to assassinate prime minister Imran Khan has been reported by the country’s...

Imran Khan slams US for ‘meddling in Pakistan politics’

PAKISTAN prime minister Imran Khan has accused the United States of meddling in Islamabad’s politics – a claim quickly denied by Washington – as...

Plenty of fish but no catch as Sri Lanka economic crisis bites

  The sky and seas off Sri Lanka’s coast are crystal blue but a worsening economic crisis has kept fishermen moored at Negombo harbour, out...
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