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After election, Sri Lanka PM invites rivals to work together

By Bharatha Mallawarachi | August 19, 2015 - 12:26pm

Sri Lanka's prime minister on yesterday invited all political parties in the island nation to work together after his party won the most seats in parliamentary elections and thwarted a political comeback bid by the...

World

Pope Francis backs search for wartime truth in Sri Lanka

By Nicole Winfield and Bharatha Mallawarachi | January 14, 2015 - 8:29am

Pope Francis brought calls for reconciliation and justice to Sri Lanka on Tuesday as he began a weeklong Asian tour, saying...

World

Myanmar, Sri Lanka Buddhist hard-liners join hands

By Krishan Francis | September 30, 2014 - 4:21am

A hard-line Buddhist monk from Myanmar known for his anti-Muslim stance said his movement would join hands with a like-minded Sri Lankan group to "protect" Buddhists, whom he called an endangered world minority...

World

Sri Lanka backs China's maritime 'Silk Road' plan

By Bharatha Mallawarachi | September 17, 2014 - 4:26am

Chinese President Xi Jinping won Sri Lanka's support yesterday for a proposed maritime "Silk Road" linking China with Europe, and helped launch billion-dollar power plant and port city projects funded by his go...

World

Sri Lanka won't allow UN war crimes panel to visit

August 20, 2014 - 5:47am

Sri Lanka's president said yesterday he will not allow a UN panel investigating allegations of war crimes to enter the country.

World

Sri Lanka takes first count of civilian war deaths

November 24, 2011 - 6:10pm

Sri Lanka said Thursday it was counting on its own how many civilians were slain at the end of its bloody civil war to counter claims that tens of thousands were killed and fend off international calls for a war...

Indian prime minister to visit Sri Lanka

June 11, 2011 - 4:48pm

 Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's invitation to the Indian leader Manmohan Singh to visit the island has been accepted, a spokesman said here Saturday.

Sri Lankan opposition leader arrested for sedition

February 9, 2010 - 3:00am

Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate was hauled from his office by military police yesterday and will be court-martialed for allegedly planning to overthrow the government while serving as the head of the...

Sri Lankan challenger rejects president's poll win

January 28, 2010 - 1:00am

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa won a resounding re-election victory yesterday, beating back a challenge from his former army chief, who rejected the official results and said he feared arrest as troops surrounded...

Sri Lanka to release 136,000 Tamil war refugees

November 22, 2009 - 2:00am

Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they've been detained since the country's civil war ended six months ago, a top official...