The Latest Breaking News from Sri Lanka

India had raised objection last week

A diver representing Sri Lanka came crashing back to earth - quite literally - when he somersaulted and belly flopped during his final jump at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham

The protests that drove Sri Lanka's president from office brought together people from across the country’s diverse and sometimes warring ethno-religious groups: Tamils, Muslims, Christians, Sinhala Buddhists and the saffron-robed Buddhist monks who are fixtures of the political scene

Sri Lanka is considering a restructure of local and sovereign debt, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Friday, as the island nation battles its worst financial crisis in its independent history.

The popular holiday provider has scrapped trips to Sri Lanka this week all the way through to the end of the month due to ongoing political instability in the country

Kayleigh Fraser, from St Andrews in Fife, was told to leave the country "immediately" by the company issuing her visa because authorities were investigating her.

A diver representing Sri Lanka came crashing back to earth - quite literally - when he somersaulted and belly flopped during his final jump at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham

New president Ranil Wickremesinghe is attempting to crush mass protests that forced out predecessor

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Kayleigh Fraser, who is originally from St Andrews, Fife, claims she was told to hand over the travel document by six immigration officers, who turned up at her door on Tuesday.

Since the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, sovereign-debt crises have become a regular occurrence for emerging and developing economies. Today, Sri Lanka needs a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after defaulting on its foreign debt in May, and a growing number of low-income countries are facing…