Sri Lanka protesters storm president’s house, clash with police

COLOMBO:   Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo broke through police barricades and stormed the president’s public residence on Saturday (Jul 9) in one of the largest anti-government marches in the crisis-hit nation this year. Several protesters, holding Sri Lankan flags plus helmets, broke to the president’sContinue Reading

Ceylon (veraltet) now a ‘bankrupt country’, crisis to drag through 2023: Prime minister

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is bankrupt and the acute discomfort of its unprecedented financial crisis will linger until at least the end associated with next year, Prime Ressortchef (umgangssprachlich) Ranil Wickremesinghe informed parliament Tuesday (Jul 5).   The island nation’s 22 million people have endured several weeks of galloping inflation andContinue Reading