Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe ordered the early release of nearly 1,000 prisoners to mark the island's main Buddhist holiday, the prisons chief said Saturday.The pardons on Vesak Day, which commemorates the Buddha's birth, enlightenment a...

By AFPThe United Nations Tuesday warned of a worsening food crisis in bankrupt Sri Lanka and said the number of people needing urgent humanitarian help had doubled to 3.4 million.UN agencies had estimated in June that 1.7 million out of the 22 millio...

By AFPMore than 300 suspected migrants from Sri Lanka were rescued off the coast of Vietnam after their boat began taking on water, Vietnamese authorities said Tuesday.The Myanmar-flagged Lady 3 fishing vessel encountered difficulties around 250 naut...

Bankrupt Sri Lanka's deposed former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to end his self-imposed exile in Thailand and return home imminently, a top defence official told AFP on Friday.The 73-year-old fled the island under military escort in July...

By AFPHis hair is neatly combed but his cheeks are sunken and veins visible on his gaunt frame: like many Sri Lankans, Milton Pereira and his family cannot afford to buy enough food.During the country's worst-ever economic crisis, which has driven ra...

The resignation of Sri Lanka's president has been accepted, the crisis-hit country's parliamentary speaker announced Friday, after he fled the country earlier this week, prompting relief among protesters camped outside his former offices.The formal d...

By FPAThousands of anti-government protesters stormed into Sri LankaPrime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office Wednesday, hours after he was named as acting president.Men and women breached military defences and entered the premier's office to rais...

By AFPSri Lanka declared a state of emergency Wednesday as thousands of people mobbed the prime minister's office after the country's president flew to the Maldives, following months of widespread protests against an economic crisis.President Gotabay...

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced his resignation on Saturday, hours after a crowd of angry protesters chased him from his residence, as months of frustration brought on by an unprecedented economic crisis boiled over.Hundreds of tho...

Sri Lanka's beleaguered President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence in Colombo Saturday, a top defence source told AFP, before protesters gathered to demand his resignation stormedthe compound."The president was escorted to safety," the...

The head of Sri Lanka's Roman Catholic Church onMonday urged the United Nations to investigate the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people, calling the massacre a "political plot".In an address to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Car...

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka announced Tuesday it was opening its oil market to foreign competition, a day after chronic fuel shortages forced a nationwide halt to petrol and diesel sales.The South Asian island country is suffering an unprecedented econom...