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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe

Sri Lanka PM says willing to step down for unity govt
COLOMBO:Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa meets with State Councilor and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi who was paying an official visit to Sri Lanka.—AFP

Sri Lanka rules out IMF bailout, seeks new China loan
KUWAIT: Officials are seen touring the exhibition. - KUNA photosn

Kuwait, Sri Lanka to improve labor related cooperation
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
COLOMBO: A woman carrying food bags walks pasts people standing in queue outside a state-run supermarket to buy essential food items in Colombo Friday as Sri Lanka began imposing price controls on essential food from September 3 after using a state of emergency to seize allegedly hoarded stocks of sugar and rice. - AFPn

Sri Lanka imposes price controls to tackle food crisis
These handout photos from Sri Lanka’s Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage taken yesterday show 25-year-old elephant Surangi with her twin calves born yesterday nearly five hours apart, making the first such birth at the facility set up in 1975 to care for destitute elephants, in Pinnawala.—AFP photosn

Sri Lanka reports rare birth of elephant twins
COLOMBO: People queue outside a supermarket in Colombo yesterday following Sri Lanka's declaration of state of emergency over food shortages as private banks ran out of foreign exchange to finance imports. - AFPn

Lanka declares food emergency as forex crisis worsens
COLOMBO: Newly appointed Sri Lanka's Minister of Finance Basil Rajapaksa (center) receives blessing from a Buddhist monk after signing documents during his swearing-in ceremony at the Ministry of Finance office in Colombo yesterday. - AFP n

Rajapaksa family tightens grip on crisis-hit Sri Lanka
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Municipal Councilmember Aliaa Al-Farsi
Municipal Council environment committee urges urgent reforms for Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh
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Ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov from the Mariinsky Ballet performs during a dress rehearsal of 'Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux' at the Saddlers Wells theatre in London, on October 15, 2008. --AFP
Funeral of famed Russian ballet star set for Thursday