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COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka's Marxist-leaning leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, grabbed a commanding early lead on Sunday in his bid to become the next president of the debt-ridden country ...
2024 Portugal wildfires. Three Portuguese firefighters die while fighting wildfires in the country's central and northern regions, bringing the death toll from the wildfires to seven people. (Reuters) At least 25 children are killed in Kaduna State, Nigeria, when a bus carrying Muslims celebrating Mawlid crashes.
July 22, 2024 at 5:01 AM. DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has fired two senior members of government including the foreign minister in a mini-cabinet reshuffle ...
Tanzania's Presdident Samia Suluhu Hassan has denounced the brutal killing of a senior member of the main opposition party Chadema, who was kidnapped, beaten and doused with acid. On Friday ...
The 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election was the ninth presidential election in the country’s history and was held on 21 September 2024. [ 4 ][ 5 ] Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe ran for re-election as an independent candidate, making him the first sitting president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015. [ 6 ][ 7 ...
e. Foreign relations of Sri Lanka refers to the diplomatic and commercial relations between Sri Lanka and other countries. Sri Lanka has stressed its principle of "friendship towards all, enmity towards none" in its diplomacy. Sri Lanka since the 1950s has followed a non-aligned foreign policy and does not take sides with major powers. [ 1 ]
The police arrested lawyer Boniface Anyasile Mwabukusi and Mpaluka Nyagali on Saturday, spokesperson David Misime said in a statement. Philip Mwakilima, a lawyer representing the two, told Reuters ...
In 2022, as protests began growing in Sri Lanka, Jaliya Wickramasuriya, former Sri Lankan ambassador to the United States and Mexico, and a cousin of the Rajapaksa brothers, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for defrauding $332,027 from the Sri Lankan government during the purchase of a new embassy building in 2013.