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World Service,27 Jun 2022,26 mins

Sri Lanka: crisis is 'worse day by day'

World Business Report

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In Sri Lanka, the government has banned all but essential sales of fuel for a fortnight. It follows months of surging prices, constrained supplies and political tensions. People there tell us about how difficult daily life has become. As the G7 draws up plans to tackle the Russia-Ukraine conflict, we ask a former Canadian finance minister whether it will be enough. We also hear the latest reaction to the decision to remove constitutional abortion rights from millions of women in the US. (Picture: protests against rising living costs in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. Credit: Getty Images).

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