Sri Lanka is now holding elections to choose a new parliament. Voting will conclude at 4 p.m. local time, having started at 7 a.m. There are 8,800 contenders vying for 225 spots. Since President Anura ...

Sri Lanka began voting in a snap election on Thursday which will determine if the island nation wants to empower its new, leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to push his pro-poor policies as it ...

Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday (Nov 10) vowed to return land currently controlled by state agencies to Tamils in the country’s war-affected north and east.

Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election that's key for their new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his ...

Sri Lanka votes Thursday in a second national election in as many months with a deeply divided opposition struggling to ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is looking to consolidate his party's power in ...

Meanwhile, Dilith Jayaweera has also called on President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to establish a commission to investigate ...

Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary ...