Ranil Wickremesinghe

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Sri Lanka To Sign China Port Deal Despite Protests

Sri Lanka will proceed with the billion-dollar sale of a deep sea port to China despite protests in an effort to slash...

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Ranatunga Seeks Probe Into 2011 World Cup Defeat

Former Sri Lanka skipper Arjuna Ranatunga on Friday demanded an investigation into the country's 2011 World Cup final...

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Sri Lanka Vows Tougher Laws After Wave of Hate Crimes

Sri Lanka's prime minister Wednesday promised tougher legislation to deal with hate crimes after an upsurge in attacks...

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Sri Lanka Vows Tougher Laws After Wave of Hate Crimes

Sri Lanka's prime minister Wednesday promised tougher legislation to deal with hate crimes after an upsurge in attacks...

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Sri Lanka Switches Foreign, Finance Ministers In Shake Up

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena announced his first cabinet reshuffle Monday, switching his finance and...

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Sri Lanka Offers Fresh Probes Into Missing Thousands

Sri Lanka's President announced Saturday new investigations into alleged secret detention centres as part of a drive to...

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Modi Heads To Sri Lanka As Chinese Influence Rises

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to Sri Lanka on Thursday on a charm offensive as New Delhi seeks to reassert...

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Sri Lanka Ends Search For Garbage Survivors As Toll Hits 32

Sri Lanka on Wednesday ended the grim search for survivors five days after a huge garbage mountain collapsed onto a...

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Hundreds Evacuated After Deadly Sri Lanka Dump Collapse

Sri Lanka has moved over 400 families to temporary shelters after tonnes of rotting garbage collapsed onto a slum on...

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Hope Fades For Sri Lanka Missing, Garbage Toll Hits 21

Hopes of finding anyone alive under a collapsed mountain of garbage in Sri Lanka's capital faded Sunday as the death...

International

Sri Lanka Protest Over Chinese Investment Turns Ugly

Several people have been injured in southern Sri Lanka during a protest against allowing China to build a port and...