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Security personel patrol in a boat in the premises of the Parliament building, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka July 16, 2022. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Sri Lanka Passes Constitutional Amendment Aimed At Trimming Presidential Powers

Sri Lanka's parliament on Friday passed a constitutional amendment aimed at trimming presidential powers, beefing up anti-corruption safeguards, and helping to find a way out of the country's worst…

21 October 2022
People wait in a queue to buy petrol at a closed fuel station, amid the country's economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 16, 2022. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Sri Lanka Approves Law To Liberalize Petroleum Imports

Sri Lanka approved legislation on Tuesday to let companies from oil-producing nations import and sell fuel as it attempts to cope with a steep oil bill that deepened its worst financial crisis in…

18 October 2022
Drivers push auto rickshaws in a line to buy petrol from a fuel station, amid Sri Lanka's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 29, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Sri Lanka's Economy Shrinks 8.4% Amid Fertilizer, Fuel Shortages

Sri Lanka's economy shrank 8.4% in the quarter through June from a year ago in one of the steepest declines seen in a three-month period, amid fertiliser and fuel shortages during the nation's most…

15 September 2022
Ranil Wickremesinghe who has been elected as the Eighth Executive President under the Constitution leaves a Buddhist temple, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka July 20, 2022. REUTERS/ Dinuka Liyanawatte

Sri Lanka Swears in New President Amid Worst Economic Crisis in Decades

Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's new president on Thursday, a day after winning a vote in parliament and urging the island nation to come together to find a way out…

21 July 2022

No Accountability for War Crimes in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka'sdecades-long civil war ended in a bloodbath inMay 2009. Government forces decisively defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam at the cost of tens of thousands of civilian lives…

Kate Cronin-Furman 02 October 2020
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