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​People stay at a school, which is functioned as the temporary shelter at flooded area, on November 30, 2025 in Sumatra, Sumatra. The authorities in Indonesia were searching on Sunday for hundreds of people they said were missing after days of unusually heavy rains across Southeast Asia that have killed hundreds and displaced millions.
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Hard Numbers: Mother Nature batters South and Southeast Asia, Netanyahu asks for a pardon, Aussies get in kayaks to protest coal, Trump commutes sentence of fraudster, Leo makes first foreign trip as pope

800: The death toll from the tropical storm that battered parts of Southeast Asia is now close to 800.

​Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the National People's Power (NPP) party, gestures after he claimed the victory in the presidential election, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, September 22, 2024.
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Sri Lankans reject the Old Guard

Sri Lankan election authorities announced Sunday that Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist, will become the island’s next president, in a rebuke of the political establishment.

​Supporters react during an election campaign rally for Sajith Premadasa, leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) party, ahead of the presidential election, in Colombo, Sri Lanka September 18, 2024.
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Sri Lankans go to polls at pivotal moment for economy

As the island nation attempts to crawl its way out of a crippling economic crisis, Sri Lanka’s leading presidential candidates are promising a fairer shake for ordinary families — but will voters demand an upheaval of the entrenched aristocracy?
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In Sri Lanka’s elections, the system is on trial

As the island nation attempts to crawl its way out of a crippling economic crisis, Sri Lanka’s leading presidential candidates are promising a fairer shake for ordinary families — but will voters demand an upheaval of the entrenched aristocracy?

A servicewoman holds a rifle during the graduation ceremony of the officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Academy of Land Forces, in the Lviv Region of western Ukraine.
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Hard Numbers: Women warriors of Ukraine, baby drought in Japan, cash for Colombo (not Peter Falk), tragic ending in Mexico

Every day is women's day in Ukraine, where as many as 50,000 women serve in the military and help push back against Russian aggression.

Sri Lankan Commando Regiment members in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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What We’re Watching: Sri Lanka’s shrinking military, mass shootings in America, McCarthy’s Taiwan visit, a common currency pipedream

What We’re Watching: Sri Lanka’s shrinking military, mass shootings in America, McCarthy’s Taiwan visit, a common currency pipedream

Then and Now: Colombian peace talks, Sri Lankans' anger, Macron's challenges
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Then and Now: Colombian peace talks, Sri Lankans' anger, Macron's challenges

The news cycle moves fast. As an antidote to the news cycle madness, we are creating a little time machine. Every so often we'll fire it up to check on, and update, stories that we've covered in the past. Here we look back at Colombia's peace talks, Sri Lanka's political and economic crises, and Macron's legislative challenges.

Hard Numbers: Khmer Rouge convictions, soaring Sri Lankan inflation, Japan’s Yen-tervention, “Fat Leonard” nabbed
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Hard Numbers: Khmer Rouge convictions, soaring Sri Lankan inflation, Japan’s Yen-tervention, “Fat Leonard” nabbed

Sri Lanka’s long road to recovery, Ukraine’s homeless, Spain’s body-positive misstep, India’s cheetah resettlement
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Hard Numbers: Sri Lanka’s long road to recovery, Ukraine’s homeless, Spain’s body-positive misstep, India’s cheetah resettlement

What We're Watching: Tehran trilateral, EU food jitters, Sri Lankan presidential vote
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What We're Watching: Tehran trilateral, EU food jitters, Sri Lankan presidential vote

Friends with differences in Tehran, EU fillets financial sanctions over food concerns, Sri Lankan MPs vote for president