United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk held a meeting with Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, at ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's opposition political parties were meeting Sunday to agree on a new government a day after the country's president and prime minister offered to resign in the ...

Colombo — Sri Lanka's new president Ranil Wickremesinghe has formally invited MPs to join an all-party unity government to revive the bankrupt economy by undertaking painful reforms, his office ...

Long gone are the throngs of protesters who occupied an area around the president's office for months during Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis since independence. Instead a slew of carollers sang ...

The government blamed the COVID-19 pandemic for sapping the country's tourism income, which is a main economic driver in Sri Lanka. But economists say there are other factors, including political ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Scores of security forces raided a protest camp outside the presidential office here Friday, beating demonstrators and demolishing tents hours after the country’s new ...