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International human rights groups on Saturday urged Sri Lanka’s new president to immediately order security forces to cease use of force against protesters after troops
Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new president yesterday to take charge of a nation bitterly angry he will remain in power
Sri Lanka’s prime minister was elected president yesterday by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead the country out of economic collapse, despite widespread
Sri Lanka’s prime minister and acting president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, will face two rivals in a parliamentary vote today on who will succeed the ousted leader who
Sri Lanka’s acting president yesterday declared a state of emergency giving him broad authority amid growing protests demanding his resignation two days before the country’s lawmakers
Sri Lankan lawmakers met Saturday to begin choosing a new leader to serve the rest of the term abandoned by the president who fled abroad
Sri Lanka’s president fled the country early yesterday, slipping away only hours before he promised to resign under pressure from protesters enraged by a devastating economic crisis.
Sri Lanka’s opposition political parties met yesterday to agree on a new government a day after the country’s president and prime minister offered to resign in the
Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said yesterday that he had a telephone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to request credit support to import fuel for
Sri Lanka’s negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on a bailout are more complex and difficult than before because it is a bankrupt nation, the country’s prime
Sri Lanka is sending two government ministers to Russia to negotiate for fuel — one of the necessities nearly exhausted amid the Indian Ocean island nation’s
Sri Lanka’s debt-laden economy has “collapsed” after months of shortages of food, fuel and electricity, its prime minister told lawmakers yesterday, in comments underscoring the country’s dire
Protesters from across Sri Lanka descended on the nation's capital in February, shouting above the street noise and pumping their fists in the air in frustration. The group was made up
Pope Francis pressed his call for Sri Lankan unity and reconciliation yesterday with a Mass in Colombo to canonize the country’s first saint and a visit to the war-ravaged north to
Pope Francis brought calls for reconciliation as well as justice as he arrived yesterday in Sri Lanka at the start of a weeklong Asian tour, saying the island nation can’t fully heal from
Sri Lanka's new government will investigate an alleged attempt by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to stage a coup to try to stay in power when results showed he was losing
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Sri Lanka yesterday to forge closer ties and help launch a USD1.4 billion port city project funded by his government. Xi, the first Chinese leader to
More than 150 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who languished on an Australian customs vessel for weeks have been temporarily brought to a detention center on Australia's mainland where their identities
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