Sri Lanka's new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake was confident of a victory as polls closed in Thursday's snap legislative ...

Sri Lanka votes today in a second national election in as many months with a deeply divided opposition struggling to recover ...

THE country’s new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary seats to a house majority in elections on Thursday.

Business leaders have speculated the country could follow the economic models of China or Vietnam under Dissanayake, whose ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, 55, who counts Karl Marx and Che Guevara among his heroes, has the backing of the country ...

Business leaders have speculated that Sri Lanka could adopt economic models similar to those of China or Vietnam under ...

Simmons University Hillel’s temporary hut for a Jewish festival has been vandalized with “antisemitic messaging” about the Israel-Hamas war, according to the student group. The Hillel sukkah ...

As the head of the NPP, a political alliance dominated by his own Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (the People’s Liberation Front, or JVP) party, whose roots are firmly in the Marxist-Leninist tradition, ...

It remains unclear whether the leftist Janatha Vimukkthi Peremuna (JVP) party, which recently won the presidency and looks poised to do well in upcoming parliamentary elections, will push hard to ...

At least one person was killed and 10 others were wounded after a shooting broke out at a party of high school-age kids in Indiana on Saturday night, according to police. The Fort Wayne Police ...

She is now seeking to establish her own party under the name ‘Tammy Tyrrell for Tasmania’, with a proposed party logo that features the words Tammy Tyrrell and the shape of Tasmania. But this is a ...

Singer Loomis performed “The Star Spangled Banner” at the Free & Equal Elections Foundation presidential debate featuring third-party candidates on Oct. 24. Loomis' performance kicked off the ...