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A ruling family on the run as Sri Lanka plunges into economic ruin

Preliminary investigations into the assault on peaceful demonstrators at Galle Face has shown top-level political interference that led to mob violence and the retaliatory attacks that followed, official sources said.

World Test Championship 2023 cricket returns with Bangladesh hosting Sri Lanka for a two-Test series from Sunday. The matches could prove to be a turning point for both sides, with the tourists desperate to make a push up the standings, and Bangladesh eager to stretch the distance from teams languishing at the bottom. It’s a […]

If the ongoing protests diminish through fatigue and fail to monitor Wickremasinghe, Lanka’s fall into the abyss will not only be inevitable but extremely painful as well. 

New Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told a British journalist at the Walukaramaya temple where he had gone to obtain blessings after being sworn as prime minister for the sixth time in his 73 years that Churchill became Britain’s prime minister in 1939 with only four MPs. He’s become Sri Lanka’s with one! This was typical […]

Moscow, May 15: One person was injured after the village of Sereda in Russia’s Belgorod Region was shelled from Ukraine, the regional governor has said.

It was interesting to read The Island editorial today (13); it says Ranil Wickremesinghe should consider having ‘Houdini’ as his middle name, given his adeptness at political escapology. He certainly has much more of an escapology than most of our politicians. But how good is the Houdini style for our democracy? Is what we see […]

Serge Jordan reports from Colombo. Originally published May 11 on internationalsocialist.net. Events have taken a frenetic pace in Sri Lanka over the last 72 hours. Nothing short of a revolutionary crisis has developed, one that is likely to be a forerunner of similar upheavals in other coun

As food prices keep rising, the protests across poor nations keep escalating.

A lawyer has moved a Sri Lankan court seeking direction to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to immediately arrest seven persons, including former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa while alleging conspiracy to commit criminal intimidation and abetting attack on a peaceful protest in front of the Temple Trees and Galle Face earlier this week.