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Sri Lanka's economic crisis pushes millions into poverty as government seeks IMF bailout

In her outstretched palms, 49-year-old Nilanthi Gunasekera holds her family's last remaining handful of dried fish — a reminder of Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis in decades.

She is just one of the millions of Sri Lankans battling a calamitous decline in living standards, as they find themselves forced to skip meals, ration medicines and turn to firewood in place of cooking gas.

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