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Sri Lanka woke on Sunday to an uncertain future, with both its President and Prime Minister set to step down after thousands of protesters stormed their homes in fury over the nation's crippling economic crisis.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters broke into the presidential palace in Sri Lanka. The country has been facing a food, fuel, and medicine shortage not seen in 70 years. The country declared bankruptcy only days ago.

Angry protesters who stormed the official residences of Sri Lanka's President have forced him to flee the country, but his sudden departure has plunged the South Asian state deeper into crisis.

Sri Lanka's political and economic crisis escalated as protesters stormed the prime minister's office on Wednesday, demanding the country's leaders step down after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives without resigning.

Political economist and university professor Ahilan Kadirgamar, who took part in Saturday's protests in Colombo, puts Sri Lanka's economic and political crisis in context with a dire warning about the country's future

Tensions boil over in Sri Lanka as law enforcers have used tear gas and water canons on protestors after Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been appointed the country's acting President, just hours after embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa...

Sri Lanka has plunged into chaos and its President has fled, appointing the prime minister as interim leader as questions swirl about the country's future.

Unrest persists in Sri Lanka as protestors are hit with tear gas and water canons during the country's worst financial crisis in 70 years. Anger grows among civilians as the country's fleeing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa refuses to formally resign....

The Rajapaksa family has dominated Sri Lanka politics for most of the past two decades. Now, after large-scale protests over the country's economic crisis, the president has fled the country and his family members in key government positions have all...

The acting President of Sri Lanka has declared a state of emergency amid ongoing protests.

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I have seen countries change before, but I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like the change taking place in Saudi Arabia. It is not like the fall of Soviet Europe, nor the upheaval recently witnessed in Sri Lanka. Saudi's change is...

The newly crowned Miss Sri Lanka New York said the contestants had "absolutely nothing to do with" the chaotic brawl at the pageant’s after-party.

Sri Lanka international cricket player Danushka Gunathilaka has been charged with rape after he was arrested at his team's hotel late on Saturday night, according to Australian police.

Sri Lanka expects final approval from the International Monetary Fund for a $2.9 billion loan in the third or fourth week of this month, the president said on Tuesday, adding that new support from China means all funding requirements had been met.

Doctors in Sri Lanka set a new Guinness World Record when they removed the world’s largest kidney stone from a retired soldier earlier this month.

Horrifying footage shows the moment the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed after being hit by a container ship. The Dali, a Singapore-based vessel heading to Sri Lanka, crashed into the central part of the structure early Tuesday morning...

One man’s trash? In Ampara, Sri Lanka, elephants were filmed rummaging through garbage looking for food in this heartbreaking footage filmed by Damith Danthanarayana. The gentle giants are an endangered species, with fewer than 50,000 African and...

A race car veered off the track during a competition in Sri Lanka on Sunday and rammed into a crowd of spectators and race officials, killing seven people and injuring 20 others, officials said.