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Sri Lankan protesters include Tamil victims in war memorial
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSri Lankan protesters lit flames and offered prayers Wednesday remembering thousands — including...
Sri Lanka's Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Civil war victor brought down by protests
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSri Lanka's Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who oversaw a ruthless crushing of Tamil Tiger guerrillas to end a...
Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa escapes to the Maldives
Quartz· 2 years agoSri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (July 13) escaped to the neighbouring island nation of...
Sri Lanka cricket stars come out in support of anti-government protests: ‘This is state-backed...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSeveral Sri Lankan cricketing legends have come together to criticise the Mahinda Rajapaksa...
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize with his novel The Seven Moons...
Booker Prize Winner Shehan Karunatilaka on Literature and Sri Lanka's Ongoing Crises
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoShehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lankan author of 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,' attends the Booker...
Sri Lanka urged to drop terror charges for 2 protest leaders
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Sri Lankan government is being urged to drop charges against two protest leaders detained for...
Sri Lanka's ruling family in fight for survival as crisis worsens
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNow former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is in hiding in a heavily fortified military...
Sri Lankan prime minister sworn in as president after predecessor's resignation
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPrime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Sri Lanka's chief justice during Wickremesinghe's...
Sri Lanka PM, scion of political dynasty, resigns amid protests
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMahinda Rajapaksa, who has dominated Sri Lankan politics for nearly 20 years and whose government...