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Deepthi is a 43-year-old Sri Lankan auto-rickshaw driver near the capital Colombo. An auto-rickshaw is a three-wheeled motorized vehicle used for public transport.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka seeks to secure around $5 billion in funding this year to cover repayments for fuel imports and other items bought through credit lines, and another $1 billion to bolster its foreign reserves, the prime minister's office said on Thursday.

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Jorgelina do Rosario COLOMBO/LONDON (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to borrow at

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By Laura Sanicola

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka wants farmers to plant more rice as part of plans to avert a severe food shortage, a top official said on Tuesday, as experts warned of a 50% drop in production that would worsen the impact of its already-severe financial crisis.

Refiners worldwide are struggling to meet global demand for diesel and gasoline, exacerbating high prices and aggravating shortages from big consumers like the United States and Brazil to smaller countries like war-ravaged Ukraine and Sri Lanka. World fuel demand has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, but the combination of pandemic closures, sanctions on Russia and export ...

By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) -Refiners worldwide are struggling to meet global demand for diesel and gasoline, exacerbating high prices and aggravating

GONAPOLA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Lasanda Deepthi, a 43-year-old Sri Lankan woman, plans her day around fuel queues.

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka will pay $72.6 million to buy a 90,000-tonne shipment of Russian oil docked at Colombo’s port for weeks, its energy minister said on…