Colombo, Aug 15 (EFE).- The Rajapaksa family, which dominated Sri Lanka’s politics for two decades after a bitter and bloody civil war, is eyeing a comeback as the island nation gears up for its ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan protesters retreated from government buildings they seized and military troops reinforced security at the Parliament on Thursday, establishing a tenuous calm ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Sri Lanka is in the midst of a political crisis set off by the president's decisions to remove the South Asian island nation's prime minister, dissolve Parliament and call snap ...

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Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe at a public rally in Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 28, 2024 [AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena]. Such is the depth of political disaffection that media pundits are ...

Sri Lanka votes to elect a new parliament this week in a snap general election called by its Marxist-leaning president who wants a fresh mandate in the legislature to drive economic reforms in the ...

Thousands of supporters of Sri Lankan opposition parties rallied on Sunday in the commercial capital Colombo as a weeks-long political and economic crisis showed no sign of abating.

Sri Lanka heads for an unprecedented three-way presidential vote today. Analysts say a Maoist candidate may win amid a popular desire for change after a former president's ouster.

A documentary on the 2019 Easter bombings, released this week by the United Kingdom’s Channel 4 but expected for a long time, has opened a political can of worms in Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lankan political establishment, including the current government and key ally, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), is thoroughly discredited amongst workers and the poor across the country.

National People’s Power leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in the red shirt, attends a protest rally in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Feb. 26, 2023 (AP photo by Eranga Jayawardena). The JVP is notorious for ...