This speech was delivered by Deepal Jayasekera, General Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), and Dilaxshan Mahalingam, a leader of the IYSSE (Sri Lanka), at the 2026 May Day Online ...

Sri Lanka raised fuel prices in May 2026 as the Middle East war continued to disrupt global energy supplies, but a purported news graphic showing the spike on social media is fabricated. The figures ...

US President Donald Trump on Friday cast doubt on the chances of a deal with Iran, saying that he wasn't “happy” with the proposals sent by Tehran as negotiations drag on. Speaking to reporters at the ...

Customs seized 360 copies of the five books, which were shipped from Chennai, India and arrived in Colombo, underscoring the state’s direct intervention to block the circulation of literature dealing ...

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After the former head of Sri Lanka's national carrier admitted in March 2026 to bribing the country's ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa in a deal to purchase Airbus aircraft, a fabricated report has ...

The Africa Program achieves its mission through in-depth research that offers practical solutions to key challenges in US-Africa relations. The Africa Program's flagship initiatives include the ...

Although her political aspiration was “to lighten the burden on the suffering masses” Sirimavo soon found that the economic realities would not allow her a free hand. In the early sixties the terms of ...

I was born on 17 September 17, 1906. My father was E.W. Jayawardene, K.C. and a Judge of the Supreme Court and my mother was Agnes Helen, the daughter of Tudugala Don Philip Wijewardene and his wife ...