An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team has concluded discussions with Sri Lankan authorities on the country’s seventh review under its Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement and the 2026 Article IV Consultation,
At the BRICS summit in South Africa in the summer of 2023, the group’s five member states made a bold decision: they invited five new countries to join. The move was greeted
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Yusuf is only 15 years old, small for his age, with narrow shoulders and a voice that still wavers between childhood and adolescence. But the scars across his body tell a far
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U.S. military strikes on March 12, 2026, targeted aircraft at Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani Airport in Kerman, southeastern Iran, destroying several key Iranian-operated planes, including an Ilyushin IL-76 heavy transport. Imagery released by
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Taiwan’s legislature on Friday unanimously authorised the government to sign four major U.S. arms agreements, moving swiftly to secure advanced defense systems as deadlines for acceptance approach. Officials warned that delaying the
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A US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker went down in western Iraq on Thursday amid ongoing operations linked to the conflict with Iran, with reports differing on the cause and number of crew
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Sri Lanka is confronting a new wave of geopolitical and economic uncertainty as the expanding conflict in the Middle East begins to ripple across the Indian Ocean region, prompting urgent warnings from
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Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama on March 12 ordered the Central Bank of Sri Lanka to immediately take measures to prevent the outflow of local currency to foreign countries through cryptocurrency
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by Our Correspond in Colombo The bodies of 84 Iranian sailors who were killed in a United States Navy attack within Sri Lanka’s Exclusive Economic Zone are scheduled to repatriate to Tehran
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lanka is reportedly confronting an acute shortage of crude oil, sparking fears of a potential energy crisis in the near future, according to sources within the
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Farmers in southern Syria say their fields have been destroyed after aircraft believed to belong to Israel flew low over farmland and sprayed chemical substances across wide areas near the frontier with
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Iran’s newly appointed Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, delivered his first public message on Thursday, combining mourning, defiance, and a call for national unity as the country faces
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has delivered a landmark judgment obliging EU member states to legally recognize a person’s gender change if it has been officially registered in
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Deutsche Bank has disclosed a €26 billion exposure to private credit, highlighting growing concerns about an asset class facing investor withdrawals, scrutiny of lending standards, and uncertainty linked to technological disruption in
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Nearly fifty years after Argentina’s last military dictatorship unleashed a campaign of repression that left tens of thousands missing, forensic experts have identified the remains of twelve people who were forcibly disappeared.
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The International Maritime Organization will convene an extraordinary meeting of its governing council later this month as concerns mount over the safety of commercial shipping and seafarers navigating one of the world’s
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