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  • Elevated View of Jethawanaramaya and Ruwanweli Maha Seya Stupas. Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, island country lying in the Indian Ocean and separated from peninsular India by the Palk Strait.

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    The massive megastructure built for eternity and still standing 1,700 years later

  • Sri Lankan monks arrive to appear before a court after their arrest in Negombo on April 26, 2026.

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    Sri Lanka arrests 22 Buddhist monks allegedly carrying over 110 kilos of cannabis at airport

  • A view of a destroyed police facility, struck days earlier, during the U.S.Israeli military campaign on March 4, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. The United States and Israel have continued the joint attack on Iran that began on February 28, resulting in the death of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel, and targeting U.S. allies in the region.

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    Live Updates Day 6 of Middle East conflict — countries intercepting Iranian strikes, US ramps up campaign

  • Smoke rises up behind Azadi, or freedom tower, following a US-Israeli military strike in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 3. ((Davoud Ghahrdar/ISNA via AP)

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    Live Updates Day 5 of Middle East conflict – Tehran retaliation, more than 1,000 killed in US-Israeli attacks

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    US submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters marking a first since WWII

  • 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

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  • A Bangladeshi citizen is walking under posters of the ruling Bangladesh Awami League election candidates that are hanging over a street during the general election campaign in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on December 20, 2023.

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    More than a billion people will head to the polls across South Asia in 2024

    Dec 30, 2023

  • A new bullet train, passes over traffic on the streets below in Nagasaki on the first day of operations on Japan's Kyushu island on September 23, 2022.

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    Why your trip to Japan just got more expensive

    Oct 7, 2023

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    Little island, big flavors: Sri Lankan food finally gets its due

    Sep 8, 2023

  • In this photo provided by Rijksmuseum on Thursday, July 6, 2023, the of the Cannon of Kandy which originated from Sri Lanka is photographed. Two Dutch museums are handing back hundreds of cultural artefacts to Indonesia and Sri Lanka from a richly decorated cannon to precious metals and jewelry that were taken, often by force, from the countries in the colonial era. (Rijksmuseum via AP)

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    Netherlands to return nearly 500 looted objects to Indonesia and Sri Lanka

    Jul 7, 2023

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