Embattled Sri Lankan Prime Minister Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has welcomed the G7 announcement that they will assist the country in securing...
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament on Thursday that no shoot-on-sight orders were issued to the Defence Ministry amidst violent...
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy kicked off the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival with his virtual address and launched a veiled...
Sri Lankan Parliament defeats no-confidence motion tabled by Opposition against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The motion by Opposition Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP...
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II was all smiles as she attended the first of a series of events planned to commemorate 70 years...
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in his fresh attack on the incumbent government has said that Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will...
Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn-in as Sri Lanka’s new prime minister, days after his predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned following violent protests...
Sri Lanka’s embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has refused to quit but promised to appoint a new Prime Minister and a young Cabinet...
In yet another political upheaval in Sri Lanka, Embattled Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned mid unprecedented economic turmoil, hours after his supporters...
Sri Lanka’s main Opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya said that it has rejected an offer by embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to its leader...
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