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  • A youth carries an elderly man as they wade through a flooded street after heavy rainfall in Wellampitiya on the outskirts of Colombo on November 30, 2025.

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    How a cocktail of rogue storms and climate chaos unleashed deadly flooding across Asia

  • A drone view shows traffic blocked by vehicles parked on a road to escape floodwaters in Hat Yai district, Songkhla province, Thailand on November 30, 2025.

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    ‘Like a tsunami’: Asia reels from deadly cyclones and monsoon rains

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    More than 1,100 killed as deadly storms cause flooding and landslides across Asia

  • Tamil women hold portraits of their missing relatives during a protest demanding justice for the missed ones near the Chemmani mass graves in the former war zone of Jaffna on July 26, 2025.

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    A blue schoolbag in a mass grave. Sri Lanka’s bloody past is re-emerging from the soil

  • Buddhist monks stand at the site of a cable car accident in Sri Lanka on Thursday, September 25.

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    At least seven Buddhist monks killed in cable car accident at Sri Lankan monastery

  • Police and railway personnel examine a derailed train at Habarana in eastern Sri Lanka on February 20, 2025, which killed six elephants. A Sri Lankan express train was travelling near a wildlife reserve at Habarana, some 180 kilometres (110 miles) east of the capital Colombo, when it hit a herd of elephants crossing the line before dawn.

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    Train hits elephant herd in Sri Lanka, killing at least six elephants, say police

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    Two tourists died in Sri Lanka after hostel fumigated for bedbugs, police say

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  • A worker carries coconuts at a market in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday, April 26, 2023.

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    World Bank approves $700 million for crisis-hit Sri Lanka

    Jun 29, 2023

  • The removal of the world's largest and heaviest kidney stone through a major surgery took place on Thursday, June 1, at the Colombo Army Hospital.

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    World’s largest kidney stone removed – and it’s the size of a grapefruit

    Jun 15, 2023

  • Colombo, Sri Lanka. 25th June 2022. A pride protest rally to celebrate Pride month was held by the LGBTQ community protesting against the current President and Government of Sri Lanka. The protestors demanded that the President resigns. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Intersex and Queer community came together to gain visibility, social, and self-acceptance, and demand for legal rights of the community. Pride is a celebration of diversity, equality, unity, and freedom. This was the first time a pride protest march was held in Sri Lanka. (Photo by: Ricky Simms/Majority World/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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    Sri Lanka Supreme Court clears path to decriminalize homosexuality

    May 10, 2023

  • A vendor selling clothes waits for customers at a market in Colombo on March 20, 2023.

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    Sri Lanka agrees $3 billion IMF loan in boost for crisis-hit economy

    Mar 21, 2023

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