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© Reuters. PHOTO FILE: People walk past the main entrance of Sri Lanka's Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka March 24, 2017. REUTERS / Dinuka Liyanawat

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's central bank has secured foreign exchange to pay for fuel and cooking gas shipments that will ease

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka has received $160 million in bridge financing from the World Bank in order to pay for essential imports, Prime Minister Ranil…

By Jorgelina do Rosario and Swati Bhat (Reuters) -Running out of petrol, medicines and foreign reserves, once-booming Sri Lanka is in a mess. And the

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's prime minister said on Monday the country needed to secure $75 million in foreign exchange in the next few days to pay...

By Alasdair Pal and Uditha Jayasinghe

COLOMBO (Reuters) - A nationwide curfew was fully lifted on Sunday to allow Sri Lankans to celebrate the Buddhist festival of Vesak, while new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe assembled a cabinet to resolve the island nation's economic and political crisis.

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Alasdair Pal

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Alasdair Pal COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka's main opposition party joined anti-government protesters on Friday in rejecting the

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Alasdair Pal