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In Sri Lanka, the president’s party coalition won the parliamentary elections | News in brief
Sri Lanka’s new president Anura Kumara Dissanayaken the left-wing party has won a clear majority in the parliamentary elections, according to the news agencies Reuters, AFP and AP. The party…
Warning of threats to tourists in Sri Lanka
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen A police officer on duty outside a restaurant in Arugam Bay on Wednesday. Photo: Wasantha Chandrapala/AP/TT Police in Sri Lanka have increased security at a…
In Sri Lanka, a presidential election to definitively turn the page on Rajapaksa?
Sri Lankans go to the polls on Saturday, September 21, to elect a new president, two years after the Rajapaksa clan fell from power. According to the specialist on this…
Sri Lanka emerging from economic crisis | News in brief
The country is reaching an agreement with its creditors and the economy is also growing. 12:07•Updated 12:11 The economic discipline of the island nation of Sri Lanka, located in the…
Sri Lanka closes schools after floods
Updated 04.10 | Published 04.05 share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen A boy plays in waterlogged streets in Biyagama, a suburb of Sri Lanka’s largest city, Colombo. Photo: Eranga Jayawardena/AP/TT At…
Argentina asks Pakistan, Sri Lanka to arrest visiting interior minister
The Argentine government on Tuesday, April 23, asked Pakistan and Sri Lanka to arrest Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi, wanted for the attack on the Jewish mutual fund Amia in…
“White party” was the last straw – Sri Lanka ordered thousands of Russians and Ukrainians to leave the country | Foreign countries
Russians and Ukrainians have traveled to Asia to escape the actions of the Russian administration, because it has been easy to obtain a long-term visa to Asian countries. The Sri…
Sri Lanka: ex-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa behind the Easter 2019 attacks?
In Sri Lanka, the Rajapaksa clan, in power in the country for almost 20 years, is believed to have conspired to organize the Easter terrorist attacks in 2019, which left…
Sri Lanka: amnesty for the repentant looters of the presidential palace a year after the flight of Rajapaksa
A year ago, thousands of protesters stormed the presidential palace of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the culmination of months of popular revolt against their leader’s debt, inflation and corruption.…
Sri Lanka is living in an economic crisis, people don’t even have money for food – an economist blames the country’s leadership: “We lived beyond our means”
The misery that has lasted for almost a year in the island nation south of India is not abating. Sri Lanka cannot afford to pay off its debt to foreign…