Voting has ended Saturday in Sri Lanka's presidential election as the country seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis ...

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Sri Lankans began voting on Saturday in a presidential election that will determine the course of the country’s recovery from its worst economic crisis and resulting political upheaval.

Sri Lankans began voting Saturday in a presidential election that will determine the course of the country’s recovery from ...

Ranil was expecting the election to be a cakewalk as he hoped that the SLPP and Rajapaksas would back him like they did in 2022. However, the SLPP fielded Mahinda’s elder son, Namal, as its ...

The south Asian and Indian Ocean region is going through a "difficult time", Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Thursday in an exclusive interview to NDTV. Sri Lanka will hold ...

Here, her family tree—featuring the Harris, Gopalan, and Emhoff families, all the extended family of Vice President Harris: "As a child growing up in Jamaica, I often heard it said, by my ...

The cash-strapped island nation is currently being led by President Ranil ... and Mr Wickremesinghe at third. The 38-year-old leader is a scion of the powerful Rajapaksa family that produced ...

Sri Lanka's right-wing President Ranil Wickremesinghe ... our future," Wickremesinghe said in his manifesto. "This election is a choice between a stable and prosperous future for Sri Lanka, or a ...

COLOMBO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - President Ranil Wickremesinghe ... followed by Premadasa and Wickremesinghe at third. Scion of the powerful Rajapaksa family that produced two presidents - his father ...

Wickremesinghe portrays himself as a veteran leader able to restore the South Asian island's economy to a stable footing Sri Lanka's right-wing President Ranil ... for every family," he added.

Being the Leader of the Opposition, Premadasa has fought vehemently against the government run by his rival Rajapaksas and his former leader Ranil Wickremesinghe from whose United National Party ...