Sri Lanka

Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected as the new president of Sri Lanka in an election held in parliament on Wednesday, July 20. After winning the election, Wickremesinghe addressed the parliament. The newly elected…

Lawmakers in Sri Lanka met on Saturday, July 16, to begin the process of choosing a new leader to serve the rest of the term abandoned by the president who fled abroad and resigned after mass protests over the country’s economic…

Calm returned to the streets of commercial capital of Sri Lanka, Colombo on Sunday, July 10, and protesters were jubilant as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed to resign after his house was stormed amid outrage over the South Asia…