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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's parliament will meet on Tuesday after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa dissolved his cabinet and sought to form a unity government to find a way out of the island nation's worst economic crisis in decades and quell public anger.

At least 41 Sri Lankan lawmakers walked out of the ruling coalition on Tuesday, leaving the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a minority in parliament as it struggles with the...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's president on Monday invited all political parties represented in parliament to accept ministerial portfolios to help find a way out of the country's worst economic crisis in decades, his office said in a statement.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's president appointed Ali Sabry as the country's finance minister on Monday as a new team of ministers took office after...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, April 2 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s government imposed a weekend curfew on Saturday, even as hundreds of lawyers urged President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to revoke a state of emergency...

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Sri Lankan crime scene officer inspects the finger prints on the bus after it was set on fire by demonstrators at the top of th

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) -Protesters in the Sri Lanka's largest city Colombo held numerous small, peaceful

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan police said on Sunday two men collapsed and died while waiting in separate queues to secure fuel amid sky-rocketing prices leading to record inflation.

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government imposed a weekend curfew on Saturday even as hundreds of lawyers urged President Gotabaya