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Sri Lanka can’t find cash to pay even one ship for petrol

NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka asked citizens not to queue for gasoline as the nation on the verge of default has no dollars to pay for a fuel shipment.

The Times of India

Sri Lanka's economic crisis: 'It's not looking good' for Rajapaksa family

Sri Lanka is in the grip of its worst economic crisis in decades, facing depleted petrol reserves, food shortages and a chronic lack of medical supplies. More than a month of mainly peaceful protests against the government's handling of the economy turned deadly last week when supporters of the former…

France 24

Sri Lanka minister asks people not to queue for fuel for two days

Power and energy minister ‘respectfully’ advises against forming queues, saying there are no sufficient petrol stocks.

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Umran Malik will be a ‘great bowler’ for India, says Chaminda Vaas

MUMBAI: Add one more name to the Umran Malik ‘fan club.’ On Wednesday, Sri Lanka’s pace great Chaminda Vaas remarked that the tearaway rookie Sunrisers Hyderabad pacer from Jammu - who won his 13th consecutive fastest delivery award in IPL-2022 when he clocked 154.8 kmph on Tuesday night - will…

The Times of India

TUI cancel Sri Lanka holidays until end of May as Foreign Office issues warning

Travel giant TUI have been forced to cancel holidays to Sri Lanka until end of May after a Foreign Office warning advised people not to travel unless necessary.

Edinburgh Live

More pain in Sri Lanka before any resolution to crisis

Sri Lanka's central bank has secured foreign exchange to pay for fuel and cooking gas shipments that will ease crippling shortages, its governor said on Thursday, as the prime minister said supplies had been locked in for at least a month.

Reuters

Sri Lankan protesters include Tamil victims in war memorial

Sri Lankan protesters lit flames and offered prayers Wednesday remembering thousands — including ethnic Tamil civilians — killed in the final stages of the country’s decadeslong civil war

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Sri Lanka to default on debt, no money for fuel, minister says

Sri Lanka is expected to be placed into default by rating agencies on Wednesday after the non-payment of coupons on two of its sovereign bonds, while the energy minister said the country had run out of money to pay for fuel.

Reuters

Sri Lanka faces ‘man-made’ food crisis as farmers stop planting

Once self-sufficient nation reels from fall-out of ill-conceived shift to organic agriculture, economic crisis.

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka in chaos with country on its last day of petrol and severe medicine shortages

Prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Sri Lanka only has petrol stocks "for a single day" and the next few months will be "the most difficult of our lives"

Daily Mirror

TUI cancels holidays to Sri Lanka as Foreign Office warns Brits not to visit

TUI holidays to Sri Lanka are being cancelled as the country faces an economic crisis and protests - and the Foreign Office has updated its travel advice to warn Brits against visiting

Daily Mirror

Censure vote vs Sri Lankan leader fails as crisis simmers

Sri Lanka’s ruling party has defeated a move in Parliament to urgently debate a motion censuring President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for the nation’s worst economic crisis

The Independent UK

TUI cancels holidays to Sri Lanka as Foreign Office urges people not to travel

It comes after the Foreign Office advised against all but essential travel as the country faces bankruptcy.

Daily Record

Sri Lanka travel advice: How has guidance changed and is it safe for holidaymakers amid protests?

Foreign Office changes guidance as violence continues

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Tui cancels Sri Lanka holidays following change in Foreign Office advice

A State of Emergency was declared in the country on 6 May

Daily Mirror

Miquita Oliver relives ‘horrendous’ Boxing Day Thailand tsunami where she almost died

Approximately 230,000 people lost their lives in the disaster which devastated coastal areas of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand and among those caught up in the horror and chaos were T4 presenter Miquita Oliver and her on screen partner Simon Amstell

Reuters

Sri Lanka parliament blocks move to condemn president, lawmakers arrested over violence

Sri Lanka's parliament on Tuesday voted against fast-tracking an opposition move to condemn President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, as the prime minister warned that the country was in a precarious economic situation and down to its last day of petrol supplies.

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TUI cancels all holidays to long-haul destination as Foreign Office issues urgent warning to Brits not to visit

A state of emergency was declared in the holiday hotspot, including an island-wide curfew

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Liverpool Echo

Tui cancels all flights to Sri Lanka amid Foreign Office's urgent warning

Brits have been urged to not travel to the holiday hotspot

Evening Standard

Sri Lanka down to last day of petrol amid severe economic crisis, says new prime minister

Sri Lanka’s new prime minister has warned the country is down to its last day of petrol as it faces its worst economic crisis for decades.

The Times of India

New Sri Lanka PM to sell airline, print money to pay salaries

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's new government plans to sell its national airline to stem losses, part of efforts to stabilize the nation's finances even as authorities are forced to print money to pay government salaries.

The Hindu

Crisis and opportunity: On Sri Lanka political crisis

Ranil Wickremesinghe must disprove his detractors with quick measures for economic recovery

The Hindu

Seeman disapproves of Annamalai’s claim on Sri Lankan Tamils issue

The T.N. BJP president had said the situation of Tamils in Sri Lanka would have been different had Narendra Modi been the Prime Minister of India during 2007-08

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka down to its last day of petrol, warns new PM

The new PM Ranil Wickremesinghe says the country desperately needs to secure $75m to pay for essential imports.

The Guardian - UK

Sri Lanka’s new PM warns ‘most difficult months of our lives’ ahead

Ranil Wickremesinghe says country’s finances ‘extremely precarious’ in first address since appointment

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