Most of the country's form reserves are gone, and it hasn't had access to global credit markets for two years. It faces a one billion dollar bond repayment in july, which is properly not going to be able to make. India has stepped in in a big way - they've started delivering fuel to shalanka. But shalankas can need more debt relief and more aid to stay afloat.
Through ineptitude and bad timing, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa—known as Gota—has driven his country toward ruin. Its people
want him out. Russian forces have occupied
Kherson since early March. We hear a report from the ground about life under foreign occupation. And tasting awamori, a Japanese spirit that distillers may lift from the doldrums simply by
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