There are several raja poxes in power, and that has been the pattern since two thousand and five. Isoung brother gota berag pate is now the president. Several of his brothers are in very powerful positions. He started off well enough because he was seen as a war hero but then covid hit torism was affected. And after he won the election in december 20 19, he implemented massive tax carts. So we had a combination of a huge depletion of revenue combined with no foreign reserves. Then everything snowballed.
Demonstrations that eventually ousted the prime minister have cost lives, but the protest mood is not fading: many want every member of the storied Rajapaksa family out of government. We examine an effort to develop undersea GPS and learn why a watery sat-nav would be so useful. And why 1972 was such a formative year for music in Brazil.
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