Sri Lankan president seeks party win in parliamentary election to help him push his economic reforms
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is looking to consolidate his party’s power in Thursday’s parliamentary ...
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Sri Lanka Counts Parliament Votes as Leader Seeks to Boost Power
Anura Kumara Dissanayake called for the early polls on the heels of his victory in the Sept. 21 presidential election, widely ...
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Snap Sri Lankan election poses test for new leader
Observers expect a multi-cornered contest in the general election, which may ultimately dent the chances of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, enacting ambitious ...
US judge blocks Louisiana from requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms
The judge said the law was "discriminatory and coercive" because it would pressure children in public schools into adopting ...
FirstFT: Xi Jinping set to inaugurate South America’s ‘made in China’ megaport
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Food, Offering, Medicine, Political Symbol: What the Lotus Means in Sri Lanka
“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...
Russian attacks kill three, injure 19 in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region
Russian attacks on Monday killed three in Ukraine's central-east Dnipropetrovsk region and injured at least 19, with more people likely trapped under rubble, officials said.