2nd Iranian ship enters Sri Lankan waters
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A day after rescuing Iranian sailors from the wreckage of a warship sunk by a U.S. submarine, Sri Lanka’s neutrality is being tested.
Sri Lanka’s export sector is bracing for fresh turbulence as the escalating conflict involving Iran and parts of the Middle East begins to send shockwaves through global trade, shipping and energy markets.
Sri Lanka evacuated 208 crew members of an Iranian Navy vessel on Thursday, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said, a day after a US submarine struck.
Sri Lanka’s Colombo Stock Exchange closed up on Wednesday, recovering from Tuesday's largest single-day point drop, which was triggered by the war in the Middle East.
Sri Lankan novelist Anuk Arudpragasam argued at the Mahindra Humanities Center on Monday that fiction can give moral weight to lives shaped by civil war — and to the guilt of surviving it.