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Schools to stay shut in Colombo for two more days: Sri Lanka’s Education Minister
Schools in Colombo, Sri Lanka will be shut on Monday and Tuesday, following the multiple bomb blast…
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Sri Lanka will use tea to pay off its $251 million oil debt to Iran
Sri Lanka is undergoing severe financial stress, highlighted by a fall in foreign-exchange reserves…
Carla Mozée
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Sri Lanka is sending hundreds of tons of trash - apparently including rotten human remains - back to the UK, as Southeast Asia continues its fight against Western garbage
Authorities found mattresses and carpets stuffed among the waste, which violates international laws…
Alexandra Ma
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Easter Sunday Blasts: Deadly explosion kills 207, Sri Lankan Prime Minister urges people to stay united and strong
As of 1 pm, more than 400 people were wounded and hospitalized, reported Reuters. The blasts…
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Sri Lanka has temporarily blocked access to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp after a series of bombings left over 200 dead, fearing the spread of misinformation
An in-depth article at The New York Times explores the ways social media can fan the flames of ethn…
Andy Kiersz
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Sri Lanka for the first time records birth of twin elephant calves
Colombo, Jul 8 () Sri Lanka for the first time has recorded the birth of twin elephant calves in th…
PTI
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Sri Lankan Prime Minister resigns as protesters storm the president's official residence in response to financial crisis
Protesters stormed the home of Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in the commercial capital …
Bethany Dawson
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Sri Lanka Easter bombing suspects are in a gun battle with the military after a raid on a makeshift bomb factory, local media report
Soldiers went in to investigate an explosion in the town of Ampara Sainthamaruthu, Batticaloaeaster…
Bill Bostock,Bill Bostock
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A 683-pound giant blue sapphire — thought to be one of the largest in the world — is heading to auction and is expected to fetch millions
The massive sapphire has been dubbed the "Queen of Asia," and was found in the southern city of Rat…
Cheryl Teh
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Thailand demanded a gift elephant back from Sri Lanka after the elephant ended up enslaved in a logging camp
The 29-year-old elephant was gifted to Sri Lanka back in 2001, but was returned on Friday after the…
Chris Panella
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Sri Lanka's beaches are covered in plastic 'snow' and debris from a massive container ship fire
Environmentalists say the debris and plastic pellets will have a far-reaching negative impact on wi…
Cheryl Teh
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Lakmal Ruled Out Of The Pakistan Test series
Sri Lankan medium-pacer Suranga Lakmal has been ruled out from the two-Test series against Pakistan.
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Billionaire fashion CEO Anders Holch Povlsen says three of his four children died in the Sri Lanka terrorist attacks
The fashion CEO and Denmark's richest man confirmed to news outlets on Monday that they were killed…
Dennis Green
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Sri Lankan government declares curfew after a seventh blast near Colombo
The death of over 156 people in the serial blasts on Easter Sunday had barely sunk in, there was…
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Sri Lanka said it won't go into lockdown yet, despite a "COVID bomb" in the country where bodies are piling up and there's a backlog of mass cremations
The Sri Lankan government held mass cremations last weekend after Colombo's main hospital ran out o…
Matthew Loh
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A Sri Lankan health minister who promoted 'magic potions' made by a 'sorcerer' as COVID cures has been replaced
Former health minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi later contracted COVID-19 and was hospitalized.
Vanessa Gu
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ISIS claims it is behind Sri Lankan serial blasts
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the serial blasts in Sri Lanka, one of the dead…
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A former Maldives minister, Sri Lankan politicians, and a Buddhist monk were arrested over child sex exploitation in Sri Lanka
32 people were arrested over child sex trafficking in Sri Lanka, police said on Monday. 22 of them …
Vanessa Gu
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Sri Lanka's Parliament dissolved ahead of election on April 25
In the special gazette released by the Presidential Secretariat on Monday, Rajapaksa dissolved t…
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Bankrupt Sri Lanka, which has said it has less than a day of fuel left, is looking to buy cheap Russian oil
On Sunday, Sri Lankan energy minister Kanchana Wijesekera said there was less than a day's worth of…