COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country on Wednesday, hours before he was due to step down after a people’s uprising over a devastating economic crisis ended his ...

COLOMBO, Sri LankaCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana has announced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert had erroneous ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — When an uprising ousted Sri Lanka’s president, many saw it as the end of his powerful family’s hold on the island nation after more than 12 years of rule. Now, as Sri Lanka ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake offered his broad leftist coalition as the best hope for a different political culture, one not ruled by nepotism and corruption. By Mujib Mashal and Pamodi Waravita A Supreme ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — When an uprising ...