Sri Lankan authorities begin a second round of vote counting to determine the next president. Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake appears to be in pole position.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake was leading Sri Lanka’s presidential election after ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake poised to become Sri Lanka's ninth president with impressive lead in postal voting results.

Sri Lanka has gone to a second round of vote counting after none of the candidates met the 50 per cent plus one vote threshold required to win the presidency. President Ranil Wickremesinghe in a shock ...

Thirty-eight candidates are running for president of the Asian nation of Sri Lanka, which is still recovering from a 2022 ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads early official results in Sri Lanka’s presidential ...

Chennai: For the first time in the country’s history since Executive Presidency came into being, Sri Lankan Presidential ...

Dissanayake’s rise reflects widespread voter frustration with established politicians in the wake of Sri Lanka’s 2022 ...

Sri Lanka's Marxist-leaning leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, grabbed a commanding early lead on Sunday in his bid to become ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's leading presidential candidate and Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayaka's party has said that it will ...

Sri Lanka is set to get its new president after a historic turn of events which led to a second round of counting of votes as ...

Mr. Wickremesinghe, 75, a six-time former prime minister, is a political survivor. His elevation to the presidency in 2022, ...