Sri Lanka’s economic crisis risks starvation across the Island nation

Sri Lanka’s crippling economic crisis risks starvation across the Island nation of 22 million while acute shortages and blackouts will get worse, the speaker of parliament warned Wednesday. Scarce supplies of food and fuel, along with record inflation and blackouts, have inflicted widespread misery in the country’s most painful downturn since independence from Britain in […]

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