Crisis-Hit Sri Lanka Defaults On Debt As It Runs Out Of Fuel

The Sri Lankan government has announced that citizens should not wait in line for petrol as the crisis-hit Sri Lanka defaults on debt and runs out of fuel. 

The crisis-stricken country has no money to buy fuel. Following violent public protests that began in early April in Colombo and swiftly spread across the country due to skyrocketing costs amid food and other basic resource shortages such as medicine, the Sri Lankan government announced Wednesday that citizens should "not wait in lin...

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