Sri Lanka said on Monday it had secured a new $200 million World Bank loan to bolster economic recovery, the first foreign funding since leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won elections. Dissanayake, a self-avowed Marxist, took power last month on the back of public anger over the island’s 2022 economic meltdown, promising to reverse steep...

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