Sri Lanka's leftist president marked the 77th anniversary of his country's independence from the United Kingdom on Tuesday with a pledge to change the impoverished island nation's image as a "corrupt" ...

The country’s newly elected president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, pledged to heal Sri Lanka’s economic woes by the end of his ...

Debt-stricken Sri Lanka has marked its 77th independence anniversary with a military parade, while the country’s newly ...