Following the killing of a Sri Lankan lawyer and his wife in February 2026, social media users shared a fabricated news report that the island nation's security minister admitted the government is ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan legislators overwhelmingly voted Tuesday to scrap their pensions, in a bid to fulfill a key preelection campaign promise by the ruling Marxist-leaning government ...

Sri Lanka has taken custody of an Iranian ship after it asked for help near its coast. The Sri Lankan navy on Friday brought 204 Iranian sailors from the IRIS Bushehr to a base near Colombo, where ...

A day after rescuing Iranian sailors from the wreckage of a warship sunk by a U.S. submarine, Sri Lanka’s neutrality is being ...

Sri Lanka’s navy has recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 people after an Iranian warship was sunk by a U.S. submarine in international waters near the island. U.S.

By Uditha Jayasinghe, Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart GALLE, Sri Lanka/WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of ...

Sri Lankan Navy personnel on Thursday (February 19, 2026) arrested 22 fishermen from Rameswaram and Mandapam near the Katchatheevu and Neduntheevu islets. They also impounded four vessels. According ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan legislators overwhelmingly voted on Tuesday to scrap their pensions, in a bid to fulfil a key pre-election campaign promise by the ruling Marxist-leaning ...

Toronto police have released his image and believe there may be more victims. Toronto police have arrested a Sri Lankan influencer, charging him with four counts of criminal harassment following a ...