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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…

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

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.

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.

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"

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