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As Sri Lanka celebrated its New Year, the war in Iran was felt

NPR | By Diaa Hadid
Published April 17, 2026 at 2:38 PM PDT

Buddhists and Hindus in Sri Lanka and Hindus marked their New Year on Tuesday. As residents in the capital Colombo celebrated, a war thousands of miles away was making itself felt.

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Diaa Hadid
Diaa Hadid chiefly covers Pakistan and Afghanistan for NPR News. She is based in NPR's bureau in Islamabad. There, Hadid and her team were awarded a Murrow in 2019 for hard news for their story on why abortion rates in Pakistan are among the highest in the world.
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