COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's police used Tuesday tear gas and water cannons to disperse an opposition protest in the island nation facing its worst economic crisis while gearing up for ...

Sri Lanka is in the midst of a foreign exchange ... public anger has reached a new high. The protest outside the President's house began peacefully, but participants say things turned violent ...

It depends on who you are and where you are." So far the only protest-related death has been in Rambukkana, a small rural town in central Sri Lanka. Police opened fire into a crowd with live ...

Amnesty International also renewed its call for Sri Lanka to repeal the harsh, civil war-era Prevention of Terrorism Act, under which the two protest leaders are being held. Wasantha Mudalige and ...

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Sri Lanka’s presidential election, held in September, came in the middle of a steady recovery from a debilitating economic ...

Wickremesinghe is campaigning with his slogan “Puluwan Sri Lanka” or “Sri Lanka Can ... popularity has been on the rise since ...

In Sri Lanka, military has taken control of the presidential secretariat in Colombo after brutally assaulting the protesters. Soldiers also destroyed tents at the adjacent GotaGoGama protest site, ...

a protest that has many Muslim leaders in Sri Lanka worried. On the morning of May 30, police officials reportedly informed the leader of the Dehiwala branch of the Association of Muslim Youth of ...

In March, for example, thousands of workers at hospitals, schools and railways across Sri Lanka went on strike to protest against the government’s austerity drive. One of Wickremesinghe’s ...

Human rights in Sri Lanka remain at serious risk in the face of security force abuses committed with impunity and an economic crisis that reduced the living standards of millions. To silence ...

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