The war on Iran is piling pressure on Sri Lanka's fragile economy. Fuel prices have surged with petrol and diesel now being rationed. Electricity costs are also up 25 percent. Al Jazeera’s Minelle Fernandez reports from Colombo.

🇺🇸 NEW: A retired female US Army officer, while recalling the incident of Iran's 'Minab School', said crying: “Actually, we are the terrorists.”

Iranian Tar player Ali Ghamsari is currently camped at Damavand Power Plant, which provides a significant amount of electricity to Tehran. Ghamsari says he’ll remain there for a while in the hopes that his presence will protect it from bombing.

BREAKING 🚨🇪🇸 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has officially announced the recognition of the State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

This is a public library in Iran. This is what the uneducated Epstein class wants to destroy.

Pro-Palestinian protester calls out World Bank President Ajay Banga on Gaza peace plan: "You are shaking hands with the devils of genocide, you need to resign…shame on you."

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez presents one of the most precious items in his office: A bottle containing a message from a child refugee from Palestine's Gaza. The item, preserved in his office, serves as a reminder of the human toll of the conflict and the voices of those

BREAKING: Pope Leo condemns Trump’s warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” calling threats against Iran’s population “unacceptable” and urging people worldwide to press their political leaders to end the expanding regional war.

Successive American Govts have ruined countless lives and countries for decades and yet they go untouched or unquestioned. Why?

Children in Gaza were filmed playing a game they called “carrying the martyrs,” where they pretend to carry dead bodies on hospital gurneys.

Even Nepalese are now scolding Indians for poor civic sense. An Indian went to Nepal for tourism. There, he spat gutka on the road from a moving car. Some Nepalese stopped his car and made him clean the gutka from the road. Even Nepalese are improving now… when will Indians ?

Train services on the Northern Railway Line resume today after India-supported restoration of cyclone-damaged sections under a USD 5M grant, part of India’s USD 450M assistance package. Thank you, India 🇱🇰🇮🇳 Completed ahead of the Sinhala & Tamil New Year, reconnecting vital

Images from a plane carrying Iran’s delegation to US-Iran talks in Islamabad show seats filled with photos and belongings of victims of the Minab school strike. The aircraft, “Minab 168,” honours the 168 killed, mostly children.

Pope Leo urged world leaders to end the ‘madness of war’ during a prayer vigil, highlighting letters from children in conflict zones and calling on leaders to listen to their voices reut.rs/4t81KbW

Some 2,115 people under the age of 18 were wounded in the US-Israeli attacks on Iran, says Jafar Miadfar, the head of Iran’s emergency department, 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/x545rk

Today, we remember a people’s politician; the late Mr. Palitha Thewarapperuma. Though some may find him ‘uncivilized’, he was a politician firmly earthed to his core duties of serving his fellow citizens l. May his soul rest in peace 🙏🙏

Absolute garbage of a show from SriLankan Airlines. I booked a trip to Singapore for which I jrrquested a date change. Had to pay a thumping 160,000 just for a date change as business class had ‘different’ categories. Mind you, it was an A320 Aircraft operating the sector. Day of the

Tolerating [ are we encouraging?] combatants from horrific killing fields in Israel, Russia/Ukraine in our tourism is CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to our country in many fronts. Govt must investigate the Srilankans involved in this. Is our underworld linked to this operation?

You can understand how good pilots are during weathers like this one