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A series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing at least 207 people, including dozens of foreigners. The attacks were the worst act of violence to hit the country in the decade ...
Easter attacks in Sri Lanka kill at least 207, injure scores more
A series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing at least 207 people, including dozens of foreigners. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe condemned the attacks — the worst act of violence since the ...
Tea label giants vow probe after Sri Lanka labor abuse expose
Plantations in Sri Lanka that supply "slavery-free" tea to top global companies are under investigation by ethical label groups after an expose found illegal wage deductions that have left some workers ill and unable to afford health care. An investigation by the Thomson Reuters Foundation ...
The Japanese government should hold up Sri Lanka as an example of how its strategy to engage the region offers advantages to all who share it.
Ranil Wickremesinghe returns as Sri Lanka's prime minister, ending political crisis
President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday reappointed as prime minister the same man he sacked from the job nearly two months ago, ending a messy power struggle that had paralyzed the island nation. Ranil Wickremesinghe, whose shock dismissal in late October threw Sri Lanka into constitutional ...
Mahinda Rajapaksa vows January snap election called by Sri Lankan president will go ahead
Sri Lanka's former strongman leader Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday vowed snap elections will go ahead to "seek a mandate from the people" after the president's sacking of parliament plunged the country deeper into political turmoil. President Maithripala Sirisena triggered the crisis two weeks ago by ...
Sri Lankan president dissolves Parliament amid deepening crisis
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has dissolved Parliament and called for fresh elections amid a deepening political crisis. An official notification signed by Sirisena announced the dissolution of Parliament effective midnight Friday. It said the names of candidates will be called before Nov. 26, and ...
Attempts to win over MP defectors intensified in Sri Lanka's constitutional crisis Saturday amid growing pressure to let the suspended parliament hold a vote on the two rivals who each claim to be prime minister. Ousted premier Ranil Wickremesinghe has refused to accept his sacking ...
Sri Lanka's strongman is back, and he's brought his family too
In a compound secured by the Sri Lankan elite special task force that protects the island nation's top leaders, beneath framed photos of himself in army uniform, the brother of newly installed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is mulling a presidential run. "I'm not interested in ...
The outcome of the political struggle in Sri Lanka will have international repercussions.
Turmoil in Sri Lanka could lead to closer China ties
A suspension of Parliament by Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena deepens a power struggle that has led to the return of former strongman President Mahinda Rajapaksa and could herald closer ties with China. On Friday evening, Sirisena unexpectedly dismissed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and appointed ...
After sacking prime minister, Sri Lankan president suspends parliament as political rift deepens
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Saturday suspended parliament until Nov. 16, a day after removing Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister and replacing him with former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa in a surprise move that signals escalating political tensions in the South Asian nation. "The president ...
