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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe

Sri Lanka PM says willing to step down for unity govt
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Fitch downgrades Sri Lanka as debt default fears mount
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Workers unload gas cylinders from a truck at a gas outlet in Colombo yesterday. - AFPnn

Sri Lanka president admits govt 'not delivering' as prices soar
COLOMBO: A cemetery worker wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) prepares to place the coffin of Eliyantha White, a local shaman who claimed he had super natural powers to end the pandemic and died of the COVID-19 coronavirus, inside the furnace at the crematorium of the Colombo General Cemetery yesterday. - AFP nn

Shaman dies of COVID after touting 'blessed' water cure
Smoke billows from the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl in the sea off Colombo Harbor in this May 30, 2021 photo. - AFP n

Sri Lanka ship fire extinguished after 13 days
A man ties a white ribbon on a fence at a cemetery as a sign of protest against the government policy of forced cremations of Muslims who die of the coronavirus, in Colombo December 14, 2020. - Sri Lanka said on December 9 it would cremate the bodies of 19 Muslim coronavirus victims, overriding the families' objections against the contentious policy. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI / AFP)

Anger in Lanka over forced cremations
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Diesel leaks from tanker off Lanka
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Blazing tanker pushed from Lanka coast
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Mohammad Al-Wasmi, Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs.
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OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al-Ghais.
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DOHA: Kuwait’s Minister of Interior Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah speaks at the 41st meeting of the Interior Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council. — KUNA photos
Interior minister calls for uniting GCC security efforts
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NEW YORK: US President-elect Donald Trump (left) and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk watch a fight during UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden in this file photo. – AFP
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Automak’s founding members, including Group President Hussam Fawzi Al-Kharafi and CEO Ghazi Al-Omar, along with ROX Motor’s representatives, CEO and Co-founder Yan Feng, and Vice President Wu Yue, during the launch ceremony.
Automak launches ROX Motor in Kuwait with all-new ROX01 model