Self-avowed Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake dispensed with the usual elaborate military pageantry of jet flyovers and horse parades to mark the 1948 handover of power. His government instead ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, center, hoists the ...
Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake arrives at the election commission office after winning Sri Lankan presidential election, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo) ...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's leftist president marked the anniversary of independence from Britain on Tuesday with a pledge to change ...
Debt-stricken Sri Lanka has marked its 77th independence anniversary with a military parade, while the country’s newly elected president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, pledged to heal Sri Lanka's ...