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

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 ...

The party of a Marxist leader on track to win Sri Lanka's presidential vote vowed Sunday not to scrap the country's unpopular $2.9 billion IMF bailout agreement, but instead renegotiate it.

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

Colombo, Sri Lanka - 18, 2024 Many Sri Lankan people have expressed the hope that their next president to be elected will ...

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 ...

Sri Lankans have chosen Anura Kumara Dissanayake as their new president, trusting in his anti-corruption stance and economic ...

Sri Lanka's election commission declared a previously fringe Marxist politician the country's president-elect on Sunday after ...

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

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

Left-leaning politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election after a historic second round of ...

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