Watching this ritual (that used to be so familiar for me in my childhood and youth) from abroad I couldn’t help my eyes filling with tears, feeling kind of homesick, in spite of me having spent more ...

A British mercenary kept working at Sri Lanka’s military headquarters in the late 1980s during a bloody crackdown on left-wing activists from the country’s Sinhalese majority, new evidence obtained by ...

Sri Lanka’s recently elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s political coalition, the National People’s Power (NPP), won an overwhelming amount of support from the majority Sinhalese community ...

Photo courtesy of LEN For 25 long years the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of ...

A plaque erected to mark the opening of a new electronic library at the Attorney General’s Department was removed because the writing thereon was only in Sinhala and English, and Tamil had been left ...

Sri Lanka is rebuilding following a series of mass protests in 2022 when its government was heavily criticised for mismanaging the economy. The country is hoping for a tourism boost to bring it back ...

President Donald Trump announced a stunning about-face on Wednesday, putting a 90-day pause on his international tariffs Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has been an ...

“That’s what I hope occurs. And also, more freedom of people to move between Europe and North America if they wish to work in Europe, if they wish to work in America, they should be allowed to ...

But Trump seemed to acknowledge the market reaction was part of his calculus for announcing the pause, saying he noticed last night in the bond market that "people were getting a little queasy ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t convinced that “society” should pay to treat people with unhealthy habits. Asked in a CBS interview about the basic level of care every American should receive ...

Four people were charged Wednesday in connection with a shooting that killed three people and wounded three others in Virginia, authorities said. The Spotsylvania Sheriff's Office said in a ...

Among those who lost their jobs were people working on bird flu, brain research, chronic disease and reproductive health. The leaders who oversaw new drug reviews and tobacco policy were removed ...