The Iranian vessel was the country’s ’prize ship,’ according to the US defense secretary, while the top US officer said the US has destroyed more...

   In Mawathura, in the heart of the country, rescue teams are searching for the bodies of victims of the torrential rains and landslides that ravaged...

   Accompanied by torrential rainfall, Cyclone Ditwah triggered landslides and floods that killed at least 410 people, with 336 still missing. President...

   It is the worst natural disaster to hit the island in two decades, and officials said the extent of damage in the worst-affected central region was...

   Cyclone Ditwah has destroyed more than 15,000 homes, sending 78,000 people to state-run temporary shelters, the contry’s Disaster Management Centre...

   Since 2022, young people in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal have led a wave of uprisings to demand radical change, united by a common cause...

   No passengers were injured but six animals were killed, police said. Killing or harming elephants is a criminal offense in Sri Lanka, which has an...

   President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s National People’s Power (NPP) coalition party has taken an unassailable lead with 63% of the vote, Election...

   The president’s party may be more pro-Beijing than its predecessors. This is a setback for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and billionaire Gautam...

   Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s party holds only three seats in the 225-member Parliament and the snap election could help him take control of the chamber...

   The new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, embodies political renewal, two years after the citizens’ revolution, whose aspirations he claims to...

   Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the 55-year-old leader of the People’s Liberation Front, was declared the winner of the weekend’s election with nearly 1.3...

   Two years after the popular movement that ousted President Rajapaksa, accused of turning South Asia’s most developed country into a failed state, the...

   Emmanuel Macron was en route home from Oceania, after visiting Papua New Guinea. It was the first visit by a French president to the island nation.

   Fourteen years after a war that claimed more than 100,000 lives, the memory of the conflict between the Tamil population and the Sri Lankan army.

   The bankrupt Indian Ocean country has reached a bailout agreement with the IMF, tied to drastic reforms that are already strangling the middle...

   This year, 94 people have been killed in elephant attacks, a higher rate than a record 146 in 2022.

   More Sri Lankan migrants are seeking asylum on France’s Réunion Island. Some of them stop over on a small British island on the way.

   Faced with mounting protests, the deposed leader, his wife and two bodyguards initially fled to the Maldives, before traveling to Singapore from...

   While the new government has been trying to negotiate a rescue plan with the International Monetary Fund, the opposition fears the return of the...