Sri Lanka's new leftist president is expected to call a snap parliamentary election ahead of his plans to renegotiate the ...

Two years ago, tens of thousands of Sri Lankans rose up against their president and forced him to flee the country ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the presidential election in Sri Lanka on Saturday. The 55-year-old prevailed against 37 ...

Sri Lankans voted for a new direction in leadership on Sept. 22, 2024, electing a leftist anti-poverty campaigner as ...

"We have deeply understood that we are going to get a challenging country," Dissanayake said. "We don't believe that a ...

In Sri Lanka, Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as president today, becoming the country’s first leftist leader. He won ...

Sri Lankan presidential election, held on September 21, has been deemed peaceful by the Commonwealth Observer Group, but it ...

The growing support for Dissanayake, a center-left politician who ran on transparency and the working class, is a reflection ...

Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election over the weekend, dealing a blow to a political ...