Voting ends in Sri Lanka's presidential election as it seeks to recover from economic crisis and political upheaval ...

Following a major economic crisis in Sri Lanka marked by protests that culminated in the overthrow of the government in 2022, ...

Mr. Wickremesinghe, 75, a six-time former prime minister, is a political survivor. His elevation to the presidency in 2022, ...

More than three dozen candidates are vying to lead Sri Lanka out of an economic collapse that led to the 2022 ouster of ...

Millions of Sri Lankans cast their votes on Saturday to select a new president who will face the task of cementing the South ...

Sri Lankans are voting in a presidential election that will determine the course of the country’s recovery from its worst ...

Over 17 million Sri Lankans will have the chance to vote for the country’s next president today (September 21) in a crucial ...

Women make up more than half of the voters in Sri Lanka, but in Saturday’s presidential election, not even one will be on the ...

Sri Lanka’s creditors (China being the largest) have to hope that the conservative Premadasa (a London School of Economics ...

Sri Lanka presidential election candidates Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sajith Premadasa and Anura Kumara Dissanayake cast their ...

Over 17 million voters are set to decide the country's president. The vote comes after Sri Lanka defaulted on its foreign debt 2022, triggering the worst economic crisis in decades.

Polls closed in Sri Lanka's presidential election on Saturday, AFP journalists saw, ending the island nation's first vote since an unprecedented economic crisis two years ago.