投稿者: Agence France-Presse in Colombo
Hundreds of people still missing after heavy rain and mudslides in country’s deadliest natural disaster for yearsEntire areas of Sri Lanka’s capital are flooded after a powerful cyclone triggered heavy rains and mudslides across the island, with author…
Worshippers are frisked on entering temple in Kandy where relic is held and photography is strictly prohibitedSri Lankan police have launched an investigation into a photo circulated on social media claiming to show a Buddha tooth relic, which has gone…
Rights groups say Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled in July amid protests, should be brought to justice on a number of chargesThe deposed Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is facing calls for his arrest after returning home from self-imposed exile und…
Arrests as hundreds of demonstrators evicted from camp blocking presidential office, hours before they were due to vacate areaSri Lankan security forces have carried out a violent early morning raid on the main anti-government protest camp in Colombo, …
Seven wounded after motorists protest petrol shortage as government declares two-week school shutdown to conserve fuelSri Lanka’s military have opened fire to quell rioting at a fuel station, officials say, as unprecedented queues for petrol and diesel…
Emergency surgery may soon be impossible, president told, while protests continue amid worsening economic downturnSri Lanka’s doctors have warned they are almost out of life-saving medicines and say the country’s economic crisis threatened a worse deat…
Minister who publicly drank syrup touted as coronavirus cure tests positive Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA self-styled Sri Lankan holy man’s supposed miracle potion to prevent Covid-19 has turned sour after a minister who…
Gruelling rescue involved navy and volunteers pulling the pilot whales back into deeper waters Sri Lanka’s navy and volunteers have rescued 120 pilot whales stranded in the country’s worst mass beaching, but at least two injured animals were found dead…
Navy joins forces with rescuers and volunteers in effort to push pilot whales back into oceanRescuers and volunteers were racing to save about 100 pilot whales stranded on Sri Lanka’s western coast in the country’s biggest mass beaching.The short-finne…
Premalal Jayasekara, who shot an opposition activist, escorted to parliament after court rules he can take up seatA Sri Lankan politician sentenced to death for murder has been escorted from prison to parliament to become the first convict to be sworn …