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31 December 2025

Colombo Mayor Vraie Cally Balthazaar presents the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) budget for the second time in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on December 31, 2025. The CMC budget is approved by a narrow majority of two votes, with 58 members voting in favor, 56 voting against, and two abstaining.

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31 December 2025

Colombo Mayor Vraie Cally Balthazaar presents the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) budget for the second time in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on December 31, 2025. The CMC budget is approved by a narrow majority of two votes, with 58 members voting in favor, 56 voting against, and two abstaining.

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31 December 2025

Colombo Mayor Vraie Cally Balthazaar presents the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) budget for the second time in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on December 31, 2025. The CMC budget is approved by a narrow majority of two votes, with 58 members voting in favor, 56 voting against, and two abstaining.

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31 December 2025

Colombo Mayor Vraie Cally Balthazaar presents the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) budget for the second time in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on December 31, 2025. The CMC budget is approved by a narrow majority of two votes, with 58 members voting in favor, 56 voting against, and two abstaining.

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#5469134

23 February 2020

Handmade tents, the narrow stream that became a garbage dumb, piles of garbage and wooden bridges that connect the slums "jungle" to the official Reception and Identification Center. Moria makeshift camp where people are living in the mud without basic facilities, on the hills of the olive grove, outside of the official facilities, the hotspot, first reception and registration center in Lesvos island in Greece. There is an estimation of 24.000 asylum seekers living in the settlement with the larger majority being from Afghanistan and more than 20% to be minors, sometimes the children are unaccompanied. Refugees and migrants arrive every day from Turkey in dinghies increasing the number of people needing shelter but they can't leave the island, while Greece prepares Closed Detention Centers. Moria refugee camp is the largest in Europe during the humanitarian refugee crisis, it works as a hotspot for Europe, where asylum seekers register. February 2020 - Moria camp, Lesvos island, Greece

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23 February 2020

Handmade tents, the narrow stream that became a garbage dumb, piles of garbage and wooden bridges that connect the slums "jungle" to the official Reception and Identification Center. Moria makeshift camp where people are living in the mud without basic facilities, on the hills of the olive grove, outside of the official facilities, the hotspot, first reception and registration center in Lesvos island in Greece. There is an estimation of 24.000 asylum seekers living in the settlement with the larger majority being from Afghanistan and more than 20% to be minors, sometimes the children are unaccompanied. Refugees and migrants arrive every day from Turkey in dinghies increasing the number of people needing shelter but they can't leave the island, while Greece prepares Closed Detention Centers. Moria refugee camp is the largest in Europe during the humanitarian refugee crisis, it works as a hotspot for Europe, where asylum seekers register. February 2020 - Moria camp, Lesvos island, Greece

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23 February 2020

Handmade tents, the narrow stream that became a garbage dumb, piles of garbage and wooden bridges that connect the slums "jungle" to the official Reception and Identification Center. Moria makeshift camp where people are living in the mud without basic facilities, on the hills of the olive grove, outside of the official facilities, the hotspot, first reception and registration center in Lesvos island in Greece. There is an estimation of 24.000 asylum seekers living in the settlement with the larger majority being from Afghanistan and more than 20% to be minors, sometimes the children are unaccompanied. Refugees and migrants arrive every day from Turkey in dinghies increasing the number of people needing shelter but they can't leave the island, while Greece prepares Closed Detention Centers. Moria refugee camp is the largest in Europe during the humanitarian refugee crisis, it works as a hotspot for Europe, where asylum seekers register. February 2020 - Moria camp, Lesvos island, Greece

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23 February 2020

Handmade tents, the narrow stream that became a garbage dumb, piles of garbage and wooden bridges that connect the slums "jungle" to the official Reception and Identification Center. Moria makeshift camp where people are living in the mud without basic facilities, on the hills of the olive grove, outside of the official facilities, the hotspot, first reception and registration center in Lesvos island in Greece. There is an estimation of 24.000 asylum seekers living in the settlement with the larger majority being from Afghanistan and more than 20% to be minors, sometimes the children are unaccompanied. Refugees and migrants arrive every day from Turkey in dinghies increasing the number of people needing shelter but they can't leave the island, while Greece prepares Closed Detention Centers. Moria refugee camp is the largest in Europe during the humanitarian refugee crisis, it works as a hotspot for Europe, where asylum seekers register. February 2020 - Moria camp, Lesvos island, Greece

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23 February 2020

Handmade tents, the narrow stream that became a garbage dumb, piles of garbage and wooden bridges that connect the slums "jungle" to the official Reception and Identification Center. Moria makeshift camp where people are living in the mud without basic facilities, on the hills of the olive grove, outside of the official facilities, the hotspot, first reception and registration center in Lesvos island in Greece. There is an estimation of 24.000 asylum seekers living in the settlement with the larger majority being from Afghanistan and more than 20% to be minors, sometimes the children are unaccompanied. Refugees and migrants arrive every day from Turkey in dinghies increasing the number of people needing shelter but they can't leave the island, while Greece prepares Closed Detention Centers. Moria refugee camp is the largest in Europe during the humanitarian refugee crisis, it works as a hotspot for Europe, where asylum seekers register. February 2020 - Moria camp, Lesvos island, Greece

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23 February 2020

Handmade tents, the narrow stream that became a garbage dumb, piles of garbage and wooden bridges that connect the slums "jungle" to the official Reception and Identification Center. Moria makeshift camp where people are living in the mud without basic facilities, on the hills of the olive grove, outside of the official facilities, the hotspot, first reception and registration center in Lesvos island in Greece. There is an estimation of 24.000 asylum seekers living in the settlement with the larger majority being from Afghanistan and more than 20% to be minors, sometimes the children are unaccompanied. Refugees and migrants arrive every day from Turkey in dinghies increasing the number of people needing shelter but they can't leave the island, while Greece prepares Closed Detention Centers. Moria refugee camp is the largest in Europe during the humanitarian refugee crisis, it works as a hotspot for Europe, where asylum seekers register. February 2020 - Moria camp, Lesvos island, Greece

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#5469146

23 February 2020

Handmade tents, the narrow stream that became a garbage dumb, piles of garbage and wooden bridges that connect the slums "jungle" to the official Reception and Identification Center. Moria makeshift camp where people are living in the mud without basic facilities, on the hills of the olive grove, outside of the official facilities, the hotspot, first reception and registration center in Lesvos island in Greece. There is an estimation of 24.000 asylum seekers living in the settlement with the larger majority being from Afghanistan and more than 20% to be minors, sometimes the children are unaccompanied. Refugees and migrants arrive every day from Turkey in dinghies increasing the number of people needing shelter but they can't leave the island, while Greece prepares Closed Detention Centers. Moria refugee camp is the largest in Europe during the humanitarian refugee crisis, it works as a hotspot for Europe, where asylum seekers register. February 2020 - Moria camp, Lesvos island, Greece

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23 February 2020

Handmade tents, the narrow stream that became a garbage dumb, piles of garbage and wooden bridges that connect the slums "jungle" to the official Reception and Identification Center. Moria makeshift camp where people are living in the mud without basic facilities, on the hills of the olive grove, outside of the official facilities, the hotspot, first reception and registration center in Lesvos island in Greece. There is an estimation of 24.000 asylum seekers living in the settlement with the larger majority being from Afghanistan and more than 20% to be minors, sometimes the children are unaccompanied. Refugees and migrants arrive every day from Turkey in dinghies increasing the number of people needing shelter but they can't leave the island, while Greece prepares Closed Detention Centers. Moria refugee camp is the largest in Europe during the humanitarian refugee crisis, it works as a hotspot for Europe, where asylum seekers register. February 2020 - Moria camp, Lesvos island, Greece

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#5469150

23 February 2020

Handmade tents, the narrow stream that became a garbage dumb, piles of garbage and wooden bridges that connect the slums "jungle" to the official Reception and Identification Center. Moria makeshift camp where people are living in the mud without basic facilities, on the hills of the olive grove, outside of the official facilities, the hotspot, first reception and registration center in Lesvos island in Greece. There is an estimation of 24.000 asylum seekers living in the settlement with the larger majority being from Afghanistan and more than 20% to be minors, sometimes the children are unaccompanied. Refugees and migrants arrive every day from Turkey in dinghies increasing the number of people needing shelter but they can't leave the island, while Greece prepares Closed Detention Centers. Moria refugee camp is the largest in Europe during the humanitarian refugee crisis, it works as a hotspot for Europe, where asylum seekers register. February 2020 - Moria camp, Lesvos island, Greece

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23 February 2020

Handmade tents, the narrow stream that became a garbage dumb, piles of garbage and wooden bridges that connect the slums "jungle" to the official Reception and Identification Center. Moria makeshift camp where people are living in the mud without basic facilities, on the hills of the olive grove, outside of the official facilities, the hotspot, first reception and registration center in Lesvos island in Greece. There is an estimation of 24.000 asylum seekers living in the settlement with the larger majority being from Afghanistan and more than 20% to be minors, sometimes the children are unaccompanied. Refugees and migrants arrive every day from Turkey in dinghies increasing the number of people needing shelter but they can't leave the island, while Greece prepares Closed Detention Centers. Moria refugee camp is the largest in Europe during the humanitarian refugee crisis, it works as a hotspot for Europe, where asylum seekers register. February 2020 - Moria camp, Lesvos island, Greece

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23 February 2020

Handmade tents, the narrow stream that became a garbage dumb, piles of garbage and wooden bridges that connect the slums "jungle" to the official Reception and Identification Center. Moria makeshift camp where people are living in the mud without basic facilities, on the hills of the olive grove, outside of the official facilities, the hotspot, first reception and registration center in Lesvos island in Greece. There is an estimation of 24.000 asylum seekers living in the settlement with the larger majority being from Afghanistan and more than 20% to be minors, sometimes the children are unaccompanied. Refugees and migrants arrive every day from Turkey in dinghies increasing the number of people needing shelter but they can't leave the island, while Greece prepares Closed Detention Centers. Moria refugee camp is the largest in Europe during the humanitarian refugee crisis, it works as a hotspot for Europe, where asylum seekers register. February 2020 - Moria camp, Lesvos island, Greece

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23 February 2020

Handmade tents, the narrow stream that became a garbage dumb, piles of garbage and wooden bridges that connect the slums "jungle" to the official Reception and Identification Center. Moria makeshift camp where people are living in the mud without basic facilities, on the hills of the olive grove, outside of the official facilities, the hotspot, first reception and registration center in Lesvos island in Greece. There is an estimation of 24.000 asylum seekers living in the settlement with the larger majority being from Afghanistan and more than 20% to be minors, sometimes the children are unaccompanied. Refugees and migrants arrive every day from Turkey in dinghies increasing the number of people needing shelter but they can't leave the island, while Greece prepares Closed Detention Centers. Moria refugee camp is the largest in Europe during the humanitarian refugee crisis, it works as a hotspot for Europe, where asylum seekers register. February 2020 - Moria camp, Lesvos island, Greece

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