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BEIJING: Residents of a city in China’s far west Xinjiangregion say they are experiencing hunger, forced quarantines and dwindling supplies of medicine and daily necessities after more than 40 days in a virus lockdown. Hundreds of posts…

COLOMBO: Children in Sri Lanka are "going to bed hungry" because of the island nation's economic crisis, the UN said Friday, warning other South Asian countries could be approaching similar shortages. Sri Lanka is grappling with its worst…

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is bankrupt and the acute pain of its unprecedented economic crisis will linger until at least the end of next year, prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament Tuesday. The island nation's 22 million people have…

Generations will view present decade of 21st century as one where things began to fall apart -global finance, trade to the pandemic, and the geopolitical ruptures, eventually. The decade will also be looked as where the helmsmen squandered…