Two years ago, tens of thousands of Sri Lankans rose up against their president and forced him to flee the country. As the country prepares for its first election since then ...

By Mujib Mashal and Pamodi Waravita Reporting from Colombo and Galle, Sri Lanka Two of the front-runners in Sri Lanka’s presidential election were the sons of former presidents. A third ...

Sri Lanka's cricket board on Monday named Sanath Jayasuriya as the national team's head coach until the end of the Twenty20 World Cup in 2026. Sri Lanka are building a robust all-round Twenty20 ...

In the late 1980s, Anura Kumara Dissanayake joined a Marxist-Leninist party that sought to assassinate Sri Lanka’s leaders and overthrow the government in an armed insurrection. On Sunday ...

From workers in sprawling tea plantations in the north to big cities in the south, millions of Sri Lankans cast ballots Saturday for a new president, who faces the daunting task of rebuilding an ...

Sri Lankans will vote on Saturday to elect the South Asian nation’s 10th president in the first election since the catastrophic 2022 economic crisis that saw the country default on its loans.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, whose party only holds three parliamentary seats, received 42 per cent of the vote in Sri Lanka on Saturday. Many Sri Lankan Australians feel hopeful that Mr Dissanayake ...

"We have to save our country," 22-year-old Dhruva tells Sky News, as he breaks into slogans with dozens of others supporting presidential candidate Anura Dissanayake. The atmosphere is charged on ...

Sri Lankans elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as their new president on Sunday, putting faith in his pledge to fight corruption and bolster a fragile economic recovery following ...

Sri Lanka said it’s reached an agreement in principle with bondholders to restructure about $12.6 billion in bonds, just two days before the country heads to elections that have rattled investors.

Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolved Parliament late Tuesday and called for parliamentary elections in less than three weeks in an effort to consolidate power after his ...

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Scarred by a decades-long civil war and struggling to survive in Sri Lanka's crippled economy, ethnic minority Tamils in the island nation say they have ...