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Tens, if not hundreds of tents put up by students and various organizations. These activists include poets, they include a playrights they d a software engineersand and monksd and clergy as well. So there's just the whole sort of spectrumof of the schulancan society converging on columbo and demanding change.

The leader of Sri Lanka’s biggest opposition party has urged the IMF to provide support to ease the country’s humanitarian crisis and cushion the blow of reforms, once high-flying financial technology companies are seeing their valuations crash to earth, and the FT’s Swamp Notes columnists Ed Luce and Rana Faroohar join Marc Filippino to talk about the changing economic geography of the US.

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Sri Lanka opposition leader calls on IMF for ‘humane’ treatment, wants fresh elections

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The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson and Marc Filippino. The show’s editor is Jess Smith. Additional help by Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.

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