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Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer faces Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, 11 December, as protesting farmers descend upon Westminster. Hundreds are expected to bring their tractors to the ...
In 2022, as protests began growing in Sri Lanka, Jaliya Wickramasuriya, former Sri Lankan ambassador to the United States and Mexico, and a cousin of the Rajapaksa brothers, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for defrauding $332,027 from the Sri Lankan government during the purchase of a new embassy building in 2013.
The 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis was a political crisis in Sri Lanka due to the power struggle between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the people of Sri Lanka. It was fueled by the anti-government protests and demonstrations by the public due to the economic crisis in the country .
Defra’s response to latest protest today. Wednesday 11 December 2024 09:40, Alex Ross. The protest comes as the Government publishes a report on Wednesday analysing the state of UK food security.
Sri Lanka, which has $51 billion of external credit, has asked some creditors to restructure its debt and also approached China, Japan, and the Asian Development Bank among others for help.
Between 2008 and 2009, major protests against the Sri Lankan civil war (often referred to as the Tamil protests by Western news media) took place in several countries around the world, urging national and world leaders and organisations to take action on bringing a unanimous cease fire to the Sri Lankan Civil War, which had taken place for twenty-six years. [1]
H.J.M Seneviratne, 63, slices through yellowed paddy stems dried out by a drought that has destroyed over 95% of his crop and is threatening crisis-hit Sri Lanka's summer rice harvest. Helped by a ...
Protests and food riots have occurred in more severely affected countries such as Iran, [1] Sri Lanka, [2] Sudan, [3] and Iraq. [32] There have also been riots and other forms of unrest due to food prices rising in Albania , [ 15 ] Kenya , [ 16 ] Indonesia , [ 33 ] Peru , [ 17 ] Ecuador , [ 34 ] Panama , [ 35 ] Argentina , [ 36 ] Tunisia , and ...