Turkish police have detained four employees of the satirical magazine LeMan over a controversial cartoon which authorities ...

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday, after voters rejected the old political guard that has been widely ...

The main ask — and the most popular chant — of the ‘Janatha Aragalaya’ [people’s struggle] witnessed in Sri Lanka last year was “Gota go home”. Scores of angry citizens, who took to ...

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) is desperate to reach a consensus with political parties in the Opposition. But the Opposition is very much reluctant to do so due to the SLFP leader Maithripala ...

Sri Lanka, Its Economy Reeling, Is Approved for $3 Billion Rescue Loan The nation, having weathered negotiations with Japan, India and China, hopes the emergency funds from the International ...

Angry demonstrators in Sri Lanka, already upset about the man who's taken over as the country's new president, were given more bad news on Friday after another unpopular politician was named as ...

World A voice of reason during Sri Lanka’s crisis ‘Economic crisis could impact law and order’, says President of the country’s Bar Association By Meera Srinivasan ...

To keep the economy afloat, the government leaned heavily on its foreign exchange reserves, eroding them by more than 70 per cent in two years. The crisis has crippled Sri Lanka, once seen as a ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's president fled the country early Wednesday, slipping away only hours before he promised to resign under pressure from protesters angry over a devastating ...

July 13 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's economic crisis looks to have finally toppled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa fled the country early on Wednesday, likely headed to the Maldives, hours ...

Awantha Artigala @awanthaartigala, RCPradeep @RcSullan, Sameera Kalugampitiya via Political Cartoons of Sri Lanka @cartoonlka and Satish Acharya @satishacharya. Capping months of economic and ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka was in a political vacuum for a second day Monday with opposition leaders yet to agree on who should replace its roundly rejected leaders, whose residences are ...