Kandy, Sri Lanka – On a sunny March day in the hill city of Kandy in central Sri Lanka, Keerthi Rathna waited in a serpentine queue to buy his share of petrol for his three-wheeler tuk-tuk. The ...

Sri Lanka’s attempt to stay neutral in the U.S-Israel war on Iran has become an important foreign policy test for the National People’s Power government. Addressing parliament last week, President ...

A day after rescuing Iranian sailors from the wreckage of a warship sunk by a U.S. submarine, Sri Lanka’s neutrality is being tested. By Anupreeta Das and Pamodi Waravita Pamodi Waravita reported from ...

(Geneva) – A new United Nations report about sexual violence related to Sri Lanka’s civil war is another step forward in the struggle for accountability for crimes under international law that were ...

COLOMBO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is targeting 3 million tourist arrivals in 2026, a top official said on Monday, after a record 2.36 million last year, as the country seeks to boost revenue and ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In a candid conversation with Newsweek in the stately bilateral meeting room at the President’s Secretariat in Colombo, ...

The country’s president said the nationwide flooding after the storm hit last week was the most challenging natural disaster in the island nation’s history. A man is carried through flooded streets on ...

Sri Lanka considering Sinopec's demand to sell more fuel locally Sri Lanka to raise capacity of separate state-run refinery Sinopec, Indian, Qatari firms interested in expansion project COLOMBO, Sept ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A passenger bus veered off a road and plunged into a precipice in a mountainous region in Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and injuring 16 others, a police spokesman said Friday. The ...

A bus fell about 500 meters off a mountainside in central Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and injuring 18, several of whom remain in critical condition. One survivor said they heard the bus driver ...

Authorities in Sri Lanka said 16 people, including five children, were injured in the Sept 4 crash AP Photo/Prasanna Pathmasiri Fifteen people have died, and 16 others are injured — including five ...