Sri Lanka has been grappling with unforeseen challenges for several decades, some argue since gaining independence in 1948. We were ill-prepared to manage our recent escalating debt burden, which left us off-balance,
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The opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has dropped by an estimated 95 percent since the country’s caretaker government imposed a drug ban in April 2022, the United Nations Office on Drugs and
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