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Sri Lankan president sends resignation letter after fleeing to Singapore

14 Jul 2022

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has submitted a letter of resignation, two government sources said, after he fled to Singapore following mass protests over his country's economic meltdown. Rajapaksa...

Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after president flees to Maldives

13 Jul 2022

Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency on Wednesday after the president fled overseas to escape anti-government protests, as thousands of people took to the streets, again furious that he...

Sri Lanka PM Wickremesinghe appointed acting president

13 Jul 2022

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was appointed to be acting president as incumbent Gotabaya Rajapaksa was overseas, the parliamentary Speaker announced on Wednesday as thousands of protesters demanded both...

Fleeing Sri Lankan president's cash in court, succession battle begins

11 Jul 2022

Millions of rupees in cash left behind by Sri Lanka's president when he fled his official residence was handed over to a court on Monday after being turned in by protestors,...

Flydubai suspends operations to Sri Lanka

11 Jul 2022

United Arab Emirates carrier flydubai has suspended operations to Colombo in Sri Lanka until further notice, a company spokesperson told Reuters by email on Monday. "We will continue to closely...

Sri Lankan protesters vow will not let up until president and PM quit

10 Jul 2022

Leaders of Sri Lanka's protest movement said on Sunday they would occupy the residences of the president and prime minister until they finally quit office, the day after the two...

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka shuts schools, urges work from home to save fuel

27 Jun 2022

Troops in Sri Lanka handed tokens on Monday to people queueing for petrol amid a severe fuel shortage in the nation battling its worst economic crisis in seven decades, while schools shut...

Sri Lanka hikes fuel prices as US delegation arrives

26 Jun 2022

Sri Lanka hiked fuel prices on Sunday, creating further pain for ordinary people as officials from the United States arrived for talks aimed at alleviating the island's dire economic crisis....

'We are going to die:' Sri Lankan PM warns of food scarcity amid economic crisis

20 May 2022

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has warned of a food shortage as the island nation battles a devastating economic crisis and vowed the government will buy enough fertiliser for...

Sri Lanka proposes privatising national airline amid economic crisis

16 May 2022

Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday proposed privatising the country’s loss-making national airline as part of reforms aimed at solving the country worst economic crisis in decades....

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