War worsens economic pain in Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka is thousands of miles from the Middle East, but the island of some 22 million people is deeply vulnerable to the impacts of the war that Israel and the U.S. launched on Iran on Feb. 28, because it imports two-thirds of its energy.…

Sri Lanka is thousands of miles from the Middle East, but the island of some 22 million people is deeply vulnerable to the impacts of the war that Israel and the U.S. launched on Iran on Feb. 28, because it imports two-thirds of its energy.…

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