The Sri Lankan general who lost his bid for the presidency after leading the army to victory during the civil war appeared before a military court in Colombo on Tuesday. Gen. Sareth Fonseka, who led ...

Newspaper front pages featuring president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayake on display in Colombo, Sri Lanka, September 23, 2024. Sri Lankan politics changed course in September, when Anura Kumara ...

Hailing from a Kandyan Sinhala Buddhist backdrop and with a number of policemen and women in the family, Mervin Premalal ...

Two senior US Republican lawmakers have criticised a decision by the Pentagon to cut 5,000 US troops stationed in Germany, ...

H A KARUNARATNE It is wilth great joy that I delve into my memories of the inimitable art teacher H A Karunatne. He was of course a teacher in the country’s formal education system and yet I am ...

As the Centre for Poverty Analysis marks a quarter century of work, Sri Lanka has cause to reflect on what independent research has meant for the country’s most vulnerable communities. In May 2001, ...

The UK summoned Iranian ambassador Ali Mousavi over embassy posts calling for recruits to oppose the US and Israel, labelling ...

Mali’s defence minister Sadio Camara was killed in a car bomb attack on his home, as coordinated assaults by jihadist groups ...

Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of Russia's Duma, ⁠was welcomed by Jo Yong-won, Russian ​news agency Tass said. Jo is North ...

Much has been written about the two Japanese air raids on Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) on Easter Sunday April 05, 1942. But these ...

Keir Starmer, if he's still running the country in the next few weeks, needs to stop dodging reality, a trait he seems sadly ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s government made some efforts to stabilize the economy and address inequality in access to public services, but made little progress in implementing human rights ...