"Anura Dissanayake, leader of the JVP and the National Peoples' Power (NPP), was elected as the ninth executive president of ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the Sri Lankan presidential election on Sunday, defeating current President Ranil Wickremesinghe and opposition leader Sajith Premadasa. The Election Commission announced ...

Colombo: Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday said that he shares Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ...

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Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's President on Monday following several years of economic ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka's presidential election, the Election ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka's presidential election, the Election ...

Sri Lanka has finally elected a president. In the presidential election held on September 22, leftist Anura Kumara Dissanayake emerged victorious. With Anura Kumara's election as president, the over ...

Marxist leader Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president after an election that saw voters reject an old guard ...

NEW DELHI, September 23. /TASS/. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena has stepped down, the East Asian country’s newspaper Daily Mirror reported citing the premier’s letter to Anura Kumara ...

Dissanayake has vowed to reopen negotiations with the IMF over its $3 billion bailout, which comes with spending cuts and tax hikes that proved deeply unpopular with voters ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake is sworn in as Sri Lanka's ninth executive president in a simple ceremony.