Colombo, September 23 (IANS): Anura Dissanayake, leader of the Marxist-leaning Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party, was ...

Supporters of Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake cheer outside the president's office as he arrives to be sworn in as ...

In a historic first, Sri Lanka’s presidential election on Sunday went into a second round of counting after no candidate ...

Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday vowed to preserve democracy and do everything to clean public ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn into office, vowing to "rewrite history" as Sri Lanka recovers from its economic ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake soon after he was sworn in on Monday. Popularly known as AKD, 56-year-old Marxist leader Dissanayake was ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's president on Monday after an ...

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday was declared winner of the Sri Lankan presidential election by country's ...

Dissanayake, 56, the leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party’s broader front National People’s Power (NPP), ...

The election was a referendum on Wickremesinghe, who led the heavily indebted nation's fragile economic recovery from an economic meltdown but the austerity measures that were key to this recovery ...

Over a year since protests rocked the South Asia country of Sri Lanka, the nation has voted in a new leader in an effort to ...

Sri Lanka’s new leftist president was sworn into office on Monday (Sep23) after a sweeping election win, ousting the ...