Colombo Ports' workers shout slogans and hold a placard that read in the Sinhala language 'Repeal the unfair tax bill immediately' during a protest against the new tax regulations, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 01 March 2023. Photo: EPA
02 March 2023
Sri Lankan workers went on strike Wednesday in defiance of a government ban to protest a...
President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Photo: EPA
04 September 2022
Deposed Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa faced calls for his arrest Saturday after...
Protestors shout slogans during a protest after Sri Lankan Army soldiers forcibly evicted protesters from the President's secretariat premises, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 22 July 2022. Photo: EPA
23 July 2022
Sri Lankan security forces demolished the main anti-government protest camp in the...
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22 July 2022
Hundreds of Sri Lankan soldiers and police raided the main anti-government protest camp...
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21 July 2022
One of the longest queues in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo is for the exit, as thousands...
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15 July 2022
Acting Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe is sworn in and says he is committed to...
Students from the faculty of medicine and sciences take part in an anti-government demonstration demanding the resignation of Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the country's crippling economic crisis, in Colombo on May 29, 2022. Photo: AFP
30 May 2022
Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of students trying to storm the Sri Lankan...