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Fortune teller sees bleak future as Sri Lankans celebrate new year

Fortune teller Andara Maanage Chandani, who runs a small shrine at her home near Colombo, says she used to make enough money to buy clothes for all eight members of her family every Sri Lankan New Year, which falls this week.

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Sri Lanka Catholic Church hails Supreme Court order for ex-president over bombings

The leader of Sri Lanka's Catholic Church on Friday praised a Supreme Court decision to order the former president and four officials to pay compensation for the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 260 people.

Reuters

Sri Lanka's cancer patients struggle amid economic chaos

Priyantha Kumarasinghe starts his day in the small Sri Lankan town of Maharagama with a breakfast of two biscuits and a small glass of tea, followed by a round of cancer medicines.

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Sri Lanka's economy shrinks 8.4% amid fertiliser, fuel shortages

Sri Lanka's economy shrank 8.4% in the quarter through June from a year ago in one of the steepest declines seen in a three-month period, amid fertiliser and fuel shortages during the nation's most severe financial crisis in more than seven decades.

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Sri Lanka to restart bailout talks with IMF in August - president

Sri Lanka's new President Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament on Wednesday that talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout package would restart in August, as the country wrestles with its worst economic crisis in decades.

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How crisis unfolded in Sri Lanka

A deepening economic crisis in Sri Lanka sparked mass protests that forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country, leaving his successor, Ranil Wickremesinghe, to declare a state of emergency while seeking a bailout from the International Monetary Fund.

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Protesters sombre after Wickremesinghe's win in Sri Lanka, but some vow to fight on

Sri Lanka's imposing presidential secretariat which was stormed by a sea of protesters in early July, forcing out then incumbent Gotabaya Rajapaksa, was almost deserted on Wednesday as his replacement was voted in.

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‘Supreme power of people’: Sri Lanka marks 100 days of protests

As protest movement over island’s worst-ever economic crisis reaches a milestone, people say struggle is not yet over.

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Inside Sri Lanka's mass protests that led to the President and Prime Minister's resignations

Sri Lanka's economic crisis reached boiling point when citizens stormed the President's palace. Videos from inside show how it unfolded.

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Sri Lanka's parliament to elect new president on July 20

Sri Lanka's parliament will reconvene on July 15 and a new president will be elected on July 20, the parliamentary speaker said on Monday, as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa plans to resign on Wednesday amid a devastating economic crisis.

Reuters

Where are Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa and PM Wickremesinghe?

While whereabouts of embattled president is publicly unknown, the prime minister’s address is closely guarded secret.

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka protesters have vowed to stay in the presidential palace until the Rajapaksa government is over

Leaders of Sri Lanka's protest movement say they will occupy the residences of the President and Prime Minister until the political leaders finally quit office, with economists describing the movement as a critical crossroads in the nation's history.

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Sri Lanka protesters plan to occupy president and PM's residences until they quit

Leaders of the protest movement in Sri Lanka who have forced the president and prime minister out of their official residences said on Sunday they will occupy the buildings until the two quit office.

Reuters

Sri Lanka hopes to install new gov’t after day of chaos and rage

Calm on streets a day after president’s residence stormed and PM’s house torched, forcing both to announce resignations.

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Sri Lanka's prime minister and president will resign after protesters stormed their homes. How did it get to this?

Anti-government demonstrations have been going on for months. Here's a timeline that led to yesterday's dramatic conclusion.

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Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down

Rajapaksa to resign on July 13, the announcement came after a tumultuous day in which protesters stormed his residence.

Reuters

Sri Lanka president to step down, parliamentary speaker says, amid storm of protests

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa plans to step down, the country's parliamentary speaker said on Saturday, bowing to intense pressure after a violent day of protests in which demonstrators stormed the president's official residence and set fire to the prime minister's home in Colombo.

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Sri Lankans ditch cars for bicycles to ride out economic crisis

For the last two weeks, Sri Lankan doctor Thusitha Kahaduwa has left his car in the garage and done his patient rounds by bicycle, spending hours each day criss-crossing the commercial capital Colombo.

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Sri Lanka looks to Indian visitors to restore battered tourism sector

Sri Lanka will hold road shows in five key Indian cities to attract more visitors from its populous northern neighbour in a bid to bring more foreign currency into the crisis-hit island, its tourism minister said on Wednesday.

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Sri Lanka stops fuel supply to non-essential services as crisis worsens

Sri Lanka will shut schools and only allow fuel supplies to services deemed essential like health, trains and buses for two weeks starting Tuesday, a minister said, in a desperate attempt to deal with a severe shortage.

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‘I must stay strong’: hardship for workers fleeing Sri Lanka’s broken economy

For many, leaving their country and their family behind to earn money overseas is the only option

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India says will support crisis-hit Sri Lanka's economic recovery

India's top diplomat held talks with Sri Lanka's president and prime minister on Thursday as India signalled its willingness to go beyond the $4 billion in loans, swaps and aid that it has already provided its cash-strapped neighbour.

Reuters

IMF holds talks in Sri Lanka as cabinet moves to cut president's powers

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team began bailout talks in Sri Lanka on Monday, as the country's cabinet cleared a constitutional amendment to dilute presidential powers that could assuage protesters amid rising tensions.

Reuters

Sri Lanka asks government employees to work from home amid fuel shortages

Sri Lanka's government on Friday ordered public sector employees to work from home for two weeks due to severe fuel shortages as the island nation grapples with its worst financial turmoil in seven decades.

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis threatens its dollar-earning IT firms

Sri Lanka’s IT sector is trying to retain talent with dollar-linked salaries as young professionals look to exodus.

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