Ms Amarasuriya, 54, is the first woman in more than two decades and the only third woman in the history of independent Sri ...

Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has sworn in an opposition lawmaker as his prime minister, making her the ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Tuesday sworn in an opposition lawmaker as ...

Sri Lanka's new president has chosen his prime minister - selecting a woman for the third time in the country's history.

Sri Lanka will hold a parliamentary election on Nov. 14, the government announced on Tuesday, less than two months after the ...

The Marxist lawmaker who won Sri Lanka’s presidency faces a key challenge in how to balance ties with his country’s two most ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake offered his broad leftist coalition as the best hope for a different political culture, one not ...

Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolved Parliament late Tuesday and called for a parliamentary election ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's victory marks a significant shift in Sri Lanka's political landscape. However, analysts ...

They agree on one thing: Sri Lanka needs a new political system that can take it out of economic and political turbulence. FILE – Protesters shouts slogans demanding acting president and prime ...

None of the 38 candidates in the election are women, though Sri Lanka gave the world its first female PM – Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike – in 1960. Polls suggest Dissanayake could be ...

Days after Rajapaksa fled the country, Sri Lanka’s parliament replaced him with then-prime minister Ranil Wickremensignhe in a vote that many protesters saw as a victory for the status quo.