Anura Dissanayake’s victory is a historic moment for his party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, as he becomes the first Marxist ...

The rupee has slipped more than 1% this month. The 2023 deal with the IMF promised relief to Sri Lanka in exchange for debt restructuring, an overhaul in governance and other targets. Even with that ...

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election as voters rejected the old political ...

Sri Lanka imposed a night curfew across the country Saturday (Sep 21) despite a peaceful presidential election that is ...

The election was the first to be held since protests led to the ousting of former leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2022 amid a ...

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday.

Sri Lanka’s leftist candidate won a tightly contested presidential election, with voters sweeping out the incumbent for the economic pain they’ve endured in the two years since the country was ...

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake, whose pro-working class and anti-political elite campaigning made him popular ...

Sri Lanka's leftist president-elect on Sunday invited his compatriots to help him "rewrite" history in the cash-strapped ...

The political party of the Marxist presidential candidate on track to win Sri Lanka's presidential elections vowed Sunday not ...

The election was crucial as Sri Lanka seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis in its history and the resulting ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday claimed he had won Sri Lanka’s presidential election. “This victory belongs to all of us,” Dissanayake said in a post on X ...