Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, according to data released by the Election Commission Sunday, as voters rejected the old political guard that has ...

The election was crucial as Sri Lanka seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis in its history and the resulting ...

The 2022 protests that toppled the Gotabaya Rajapaksa regime catapulted the JVP, and by extension Dissanayake, to the ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka's presidential election as voters reject old political guard.

In April 2022, the Sri Lankan government announced that it was defaulting on its debt for the first time since independence.

Fixing Sri Lanka’s battered economy and wiping out racism will be top priority for a National People’s Power (NPP) government, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, among the frontrunners in the September ...

Gamini Dissanayake and Ranil Wickremesinghe (to a lesser extent ... Lalith Athulathmudali, the Minister of National Security and Deputy Minister of Defence, was also severely wounded in the attack.

But the measures also reflect the way national security concerns have intruded into economic policy. US officials have fretted that China could employ the hulking cranes to conduct espionage at US ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of National People’s Power alliance and its presidential candidate, says he’s serving those who were part of public protests that ousted then-President Gotabaya ...

Leaders around the world justify their foreign-policy decisions in the name of the “national interest.” Joe Biden and his aides, for example, have used the phrase to defend the administration ...

IHP’s Sri Lanka Opinion Tracker Survey (SLOTS) MRP provisional estimates of Presidential Election voting intent for July 2024 show NPP/JVP leader AK Dissanayake and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa leading ...