Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday, ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in on Monday as the ninth President of Sri Lanka. At a ceremony at the Presidential ...

Dissanayake, 55, defeated opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, who garnered 4,530,902 votes, along with 36 other candidates.

After taking oath on Monday, the new Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said he had no magic solution to the ...

Sri Lanka’s new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has taken office with a pledge to usher in "clean" politics, as the nation grapples with recovery from its worst economic crisis. A left-leaning ...

Voters backed Marxist coalition leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, rejecting an old guard accused of leading the country into ...

Sri Lanka's first leftist president was sworn in to office Monday vowing to restore public faith in politics but said he had ...

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena has resigned, he said on Monday, a day after Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara ...

Sri Lanka's new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn into office, promising "clean" politics as the country ...

Sri Lanka has finally elected a president. In the presidential election held on September 22, leftist Anura Kumara Dissanayake emerged victorious. With Anura Kumara's election as president, the over ...

Marxist leader Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president after an election that saw voters reject an old guard ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday said he hoped to broaden cooperation with Sri Lanka under his Belt and Road infrastructure initiative (BRI) as he congratulated the island nation's new leader ...