The Sri Lankan government is exploring the possibility of importing US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil as part of ongoing efforts to narrow the trade deficit with the United States and seek ...

Sri Lanka government in crisis after ... 72-year-old Rajapaksa was first elected president in 2005 and returned to office in 2010, a year after government forces routed Tamil rebel groups to end ...

Sri Lankan president, prime minister to resign amid protests 01:27. Thousands of protesters were refusing to budge from the official residences of Sri Lanka 's president and its prime minister on ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Protesters stormed the office of Sri Lanka’s prime minister on Wednesday, once again taking to the streets of the capital and calling for the ouster of the island nation ...

Sri Lanka's opposition leaders meet to discuss forming a new government A lawmaker said all opposition parties combined could easily muster the 113 members needed to show a majority in Parliament ...

Sri Lanka's opposition political parties are meeting to install a new government a day after the ... Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he will leave office once a new government is in ...

new video loaded: Protesters in Sri Lanka Maintain Control of Government Buildings Hundreds of people in Colombo, Sri Lanka, continued to occupy President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s home and office ...

Sri Lanka's main opposition party joined anti-government protesters on Friday in rejecting the appointment of a new prime minister and insisted the president resign to take ... his office said.

The family has been in power for much of the past two decades. During his 10 years as president, Mahinda Rajapaksa ended Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war in 2009, crushing the rebels known as ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Defying a nationwide curfew in Sri Lanka, a few hundred protesters continued to chant slogans against the government Tuesday, a day after violent clashes saw the resignation ...

The government is reportedly looking at the possibility of procuring US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil in a bid to ...