Sri Lanka’s health ministry said that the death toll of Sunday’s bombings would be lowered to about 250 from 359—the latest figure released by police—citing difficulties identifying and ...

The death toll from floods and mudslides following heavy rains in Sri Lanka rose to 14 with another two missing, officials said Sunday. Ten districts on the Indian Ocean island have been under ...

In the last six months alone, extra-judicial executions, suicide bombings and fighting have claimed many hundreds of lives in Sri Lanka. The death of a Hindu Tamil priest underlines the sheer ...

The Sri Lanka government should halt plans to resume executions and restore its de facto 43-year moratorium on the use of the death penalty.

Prison officials in Sri Lanka are looking for two executioners after President Maithripala Sirisena vowed to end a 43-year moratorium on capital punishment.

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s president on Wednesday signed death sentences for four people convicted of drug-related offenses in a decision analysts said is aimed at boosting his chances of re ...

Sri Lanka has closed schools as heavy rain triggered floods and mudslides in many parts of the island nation, leaving at least 16 people dead.

The Sri Lankan government should drop plans to resume executions, which would end an unofficial 43-year moratorium in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. On March 31, 2019, President ...

At least nine bombs that tore through churches and hotels in three Sri Lankan cities on Easter Sunday. The death toll had risen to at least 290, with more than 500 others wounded, by Monday ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The death toll from mudslides and floods in Sri Lanka has climbed past 200, with 96 others missing, the government said Wednesday.

But on Thursday, health officials in Sri Lanka backtracked, saying the toll could be almost one-third lower than the earlier number. A more accurate death toll, they said, might be closer to 250.