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World in brief: May 11, 2025
Panama's former President Ricardo Martinelli waves to supporters during a campaign rally, in Panama City, February 3, 2024
SRI LANKA: A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country today, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others, a police spokesman said.
The accident occurred in the early hours of Sunday near the town of Kotmale, about 86 miles east of the capital Colombo, in a mountainous area of central Sri Lanka, police said.
IRAN: A fourth round of negotiations with the US began today over Tehran’s nuclear programme, officials said.
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