Sri Lanka

Colombo has asked Beijing to defer a planned visit by a tracking ship

The recently inaugurated president has delivered his government’s policy statement in parliament

Security personnel raided a key protest camp hours before the new president’s cabinet was sworn in

Ranil Wickremesinghe has been elected president by lawmakers

The candidates have been announced for tomorrow’s vote in parliament on a new president

Following Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation as president, attention is turning to whom MPs will pick as his successor

The president has fled but not resigned as promised, instead appointing the premier as acting president

The country’s political tensions may be about to ease but the economic crisis underlying them continues to spiral