Sri Lanka elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new president on Sunday, putting faith in the 55-year-old's ...

Sri Lanka's Marxist-leaning leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, won the presidential election for the debt-ridden island nation ...

Sri Lanka has its first Communist president in 56-year-old Anura Kumar Dissanayake - a historic verdict after a second round ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been elected as Sri Lanka's new president, becoming the first Marxist leader in the country's ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads early official results in Sri Lanka’s presidential ...

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday won the presidential election in Sri Lanka defeating incumbent Ranil ...

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Sudipto Ganguly COLOMBO (Reuters) -Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake and opposition leader ...

Dissanayake pledged to change the island's "corrupt" political culture. The nation's battered economy took centre stage ...

The NPP’s platform focused on breaking the cycle of corruption and mismanagement that many believe has plagued Sri Lankan ...

Dissanayake, 56, the leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna partys broader front National Peoples Power, defeats his ...

The commission said Mr. Dissanayake won the presidency with 42.31% of the vote; he is due to be sworn in on September 23 ...