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Sri Lanka’s Tamil party sweeps polls, urges trust with government

November 3, 2021 at 7:14 p.m.

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's main ethnic minority Tamil party secured a landslide victory in a provincial poll that has threatened to rekindle animosity between the government and...

Sri Lanka’s Tamil party sweeps polls, urges trust with government

December 24, 2018 at 4:31 a.m.

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's main ethnic minority Tamil party secured a landslide victory in a provincial poll that has threatened to rekindle animosity between the government and...

Relatives of Sri Lanka’s missing vent grievances at U.N.

August 24, 2021 at 2:36 p.m.

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Protesters in Sri Lanka criticized the United Nations for a second day on Tuesday during a visit by U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay who...

Sri Lanka court ends ban on sale of Fonterra products

August 24, 2021 at 2:32 p.m.

GAMPAHA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - A Sri Lankan court ended a ban on the sale, distribution and advertising of all Fonterra milk products, lawyers said, soon after the company suspended...

NZ’s Fonterra pulls ‘DCD’ milk powder in Sri Lanka, disputes test

August 24, 2021 at 2:11 p.m.

WELLINGTON/COLOMBO (Reuters) - New Zealand-based dairy giant Fonterra Co-operative Ltd said on Sunday it had withdrawn milk powder under orders from the Sri Lankan authorities for showing traces of the...

Sri Lanka takes next step to opening strategic China-built port

August 24, 2021 at 12:20 a.m.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will start storing bunker fuel at the $1.5 billion Hambantota port in June, a senior official said, after years of delays to the Chinese-built installation...

Myanmar migrant survivors tell of throwing dead overboard

June 21, 2019 at 4:35 p.m.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Myanmar nationals rescued from a sinking ship by the Sri Lankan Navy have told of throwing 98 people overboard after they died of starvation and dehydration, Sri...

Sri Lanka bars human rights panel from visiting country

August 22, 2019 at 8:37 a.m.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka said on Sunday it would not allow into the country an international human rights panel due to visit after the government's controversial sacking of the...

Sri Lanka president picks ally as chief justice, lawyers protest

August 22, 2019 at 8:11 a.m.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's President Mahindra Rajapaksa appointed a close ally as chief justice on Tuesday, two days after he controversially sacked the country's top judge for impeachment in...

Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa removes chief justice after impeachment

August 22, 2019 at 8:08 a.m.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - President Mahinda Rajapaksa removed Sri Lanka's chief justice from office with immediate effect on Sunday, defying a Supreme Court ruling that the impeachment process was illegal and...

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