Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn in as Sri Lanka's tenth president by Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya on Monday. With this, Dissanayake has officially become the first Marxist ...

Japanese Ambassador Mizukoshi Hideaki yesterday paid a courtesy call on the newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake ...

Also, two new studies this week add to existing research that has found microplastics in nearly every organ in the human body ...

"A Dissanayake win is the worst possible outcome for Sri Lanka’s bonds, raising question marks not only for the IMF programme ...

"We have deeply understood that we are going to get a challenging country," Dissanayake said. "We don't believe that a ...

Sri Lanka’s Presidential election marks a pivotal moment as Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxistleaning leader, gets set to ...

Yet many Sri Lankans continue to demand fundamental change. It is not only swingeing austerity that angers them: they are ...

Amid a change of guard in Sri Lanka, many former Indian diplomats on Monday said the results of the presidential election in ...

President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has congratulated Anura Kumara Dissanayake for his victory in the ...

US and European shares nudged higher Monday as momentum from last week was restrained by weak eurozone economic data.

In Sri Lanka, Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as president today, becoming the country’s first leftist leader. He won ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake has taken his oath as Sri Lanka’s new president after he was confirmed winner of Saturday’s election ...