Rathindra Kuruwita

The veteran politician has been elected president by the members of Sri Lanka’s parliament.

Protesters occupying government buildings say they will remain until the president and the prime minister step down.

Once self-sufficient nation reels from fall-out of ill-conceived shift to organic agriculture, economic crisis.

As protesters dig in for a long haul, tents come up outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office in Colombo.

Drugs to treat heart attacks and tubes to help babies breathe in short supply as doctors forced to treat in the dark.

Protesters angry over a worsening economic crisis take aim at Sri Lanka’s all-powerful Rajapaksa family.

For months, thousands have queued for fuel, food and medicine amid the country’s worst economic crisis in memory.

Protesters rally across Sri Lanka despite curfew, demanding President Rajapaksa resign over worsening economic crisis.

Police imposed a brief curfew after clashing with protesters who tried to storm President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s house.

Hundreds in Sri Lanka attend funeral for Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, 48, who was killed by a mob in Sialkot, Pakistan.