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COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa plans to step down, the country's parliamentary speaker said on Saturday, bowing to intense pressure after a violent day of protests in which demonstrators stormed the president's official residence and set fire to the prime minister's home in Colombo.

(Reuters) - A deep financial crisis has left Sri Lanka struggling to pay for imports of food, medicine and fuel and brought thousands of protesters on...

2/2 © Reuters. Police use tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators near President's residence during a protest demanding the resignation o

COLOMBO (Reuters) - A deepening economic crisis in Sri Lanka sparked mass protests that forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country, leaving his successor, Ranil Wickremesinghe, to declare a state of emergency while seeking a bailout from the International Monetary Fund.

The announcement came after thousands of protesters stormed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's residence in Colombo, following months of protests over his handling of the country's economic crisis.

A deep financial crisis has left Sri Lanka struggling to pay for imports of food, medicine and fuel and brought thousands of protesters on to the streets. On Saturday, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will hold road shows in five key Indian cities to attract more visitors from its populous northern neighbour in a bid to bring more foreign currency into the crisis-hit island, its tourism minister said on Wednesday.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka s president on Wednesday said he urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin to help his cash strapped island nation import fuel as it face...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -Crisis-hit Sri Lanka will present a debt restructuring plan to the International Monetary Fund by the end of A...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is struggling to raise $587 million to pay for about half a dozen fuel shipments, a top minister sa...