Sri Lanka’s Parliament voted Wednesday to elect six-time Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as president after the country's previous leader fled the country amid protests over an major ...

Sri Lanka's newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved parliament to clear the way for a snap general election in the debt-ridden country, he said in a government gazette ...

Sri Lanka's Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeyweardana made the announcement Friday. The country's Parliament will convene on Saturday to begin the process of selecting a new president.

Sri Lankan president, prime minister agree to step down after massive protests 00:25. Colombo, Sri Lanka — President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to resign in the coming days, the speaker of ...

The President of Sri Lanka dissolved parliament on Friday and called a snap election for January 5, in a move aimed at ending a political standoff that has disrupted its capital, Colombo, for weeks.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe was selected Wednesday by Parliament to be the country’s new leader after widespread protests ousted the unpopular ...

Sri Lanka’s parliament will elect a president Wednesday to complete the more than two years remaining in the term of the would-be autocrat Gotabhaya Rajapakse, who was chased from power by ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s Parliament speaker says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned and Parliament will convene to choose a new leader after massive protests took over ...

Sri Lanka’s opposition parties are trying to cobble together an all-party government and pick candidates who can take over after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil ...

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is appointed as the crisis-hit country’s acting president, hours after embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country for the Maldives.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the ...