A cargo ship carrying chemicals and plastic pellets has been burning off the coast of Sri Lanka for nearly two weeks. Now, efforts to tow the ship to deeper waters have failed – and the boat's sinking ...

GENEVA, June 10 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is at risk of tipping into a full-blown humanitarian crisis as the country's economy suffers its biggest shock in decades, the U.N. humanitarian office (OCHA) ...

Sri Lanka’s economic turmoil has become a full-blown political crisis and humanitarian emergency. The government defaulted on its debt in May, for the first time in its history, after years of ...

Sri Lanka is recommending airlines carry enough jet fuel to last return trips or fill up elsewhere, as the island grapples with a shortage of everything from oil to food due to a foreign-exchange ...

The second One-Day International between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will take place on Saturday, 5 July 2025, at the iconic R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. The match is scheduled to begin at 2:30 PM ...

Sri Lanka is emerging from an unprecedented economic crisis that imposed significant hardships on its people, especially the most vulnerable. We saw some of these effects in our own travels around the ...

(Brussels) – The Sri Lankan government is using the discredited Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to commit prolonged arbitrary detention and torture, Human Rights Watch said in a report released ...

Sri Lanka has the best human development outcomes in South Asia, despite relatively low spending levels on health, education and social safety nets. Yet, according to the World Bank’s Human Capital ...

This March marks the mid-point of Sri Lanka’s four-year economic reform program supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In the two years since its inception difficult but much needed ...