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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

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.

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

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"

Foreign Office changes guidance as violence continues

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.

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.

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

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has warned the “next couple of months will be the most difficult ones of our lives” amid an economic crisis.

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

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