Sri Lanka Has Only One Day Of Petrol Left

Sri Lanka merely has enough petrol to span a single day, and the country's new prime minister has cautioned that power shortages could last up to 15 hours every day, as it confront its biggest economic crisis ever since independence in 1948.

Ranil Wickremesinghe, during his first address to the nation since his contentious appointment last week, expressed "grave concern" over a scarcity of 14 medicines, citing a shortfall of heart disease medications and the anti-rabies vaccine, the latt...

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