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Leader and the presidential candidate of National People's Power Anura Kumara Dissanayake arrives at a polling station to cast his vote in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Marxist lawmaker Anura Dissanayake claims victory in Sri Lanka’s presidential election

By Krishan Francis and Shiekh Saaliq - Associated Press

Sri Lankan show their baby fingers marked with an indelible ink after casting their vote at a polling center for presidential election in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Voting ends in Sri Lanka to choose a president and a way out of years of turmoil

By Krishan Francis, Sheikh Saaliq and Bharatha Mallawarachi - Associated Press

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, disembarks from a plane as he arrives in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Raisi is the first Iranian leader to visit Sri Lanka since former President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad visited the country in 2008. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Iran’s Raisi inaugurates project in Sri Lanka, says West doesn’t monopolize knowledge, technology

By Krishan Francis - Associated Press

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, center, sits with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawaradane, left, and the First Lady of Sri Lanka Maithree Wickremesinghe, during the 76th Independence Day commemoration ceremony of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Debt-laden Sri Lanka marks Independence Day with Thai prime minister as guest of honor

By Bharatha Mallawarachi - Associated Press

In this Handout photograph released by the Sri Lanka President's Office HO, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, second right, poses for a photograph with Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin at the presidential secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. (Sri Lanka President's Office HO via AP)

Debt-stricken Sri Lanka signs a free trade pact with Thailand

By Bharatha Mallawarachi - Associated Press

A supporter of Sri Lanka's main opposition covers his face as police fire water cannons to disperse them during a protest rally against high taxes and increases in electricity and fuel charges, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Police in Sri Lanka use tear gas to disperse opposition protest against dire economic conditions

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe walk for a photo call before their delegation level meeting in New Delhi, India, Friday, July 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Sri Lankan president’s visit to India signals growing economic and energy ties

By Krutika Pathi and Bharatha Mallawarachi - Associated Press

FILE - A ferry berths as a partially illuminated Colombo Lotus Tower, a multi complex digital transmission tower, is reflected in the water, a day after its opening in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Sri Lanka marked its 75th independence anniversary on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, as a bankrupt nation, with many citizens angry, anxious and in no mood to celebrate. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

Sri Lanka marks independence anniversary amid economic woes

By Bharatha Mallawarachi and Krishan Francis - Associated Press

FILE - Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on June 11, 2022. On Friday, July 22, now Sri Lanka's new president, Wickremesinghe, appointed a classmate and ally of ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to be his prime minister and partner in rescuing the country from its predicament. The question is whether they can muster the political heft and enough support from a public fed up with shortages of food, fuel and medicine to get the job done. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

Sri Lanka president gets long-sought win, steep challenges

By Krishan Francis and Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Army soldiers stand guard near a barricade following an eviction of protesters from the presidential secretariat premise in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lankan troops forcefully clear protesters; new PM named

By Krishan Francis and Rafiq Maqbool and Rishi Lekhi - Associated Press

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe arrives for an interview with The Associated Press in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 11, 2022. Sri Lankan lawmakers chose Wickremesinghe as president Wednesday, defying the risk the vote would reignite turmoil among a public outraged by the South Asian country's dire economic, humanitarian and political crisis. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

Ranil Wickremesinghe elected new president in crisis-hit Sri Lanka

By Krishan Francis - Associated Press

In this photograph provided by the Sri Lankan President's Office, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, greets Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya during the oath-taking ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 15, 2022. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse forced him from office. (Sri Lankan President's Office via AP)

Ranil Wickremesinghe becomes interim Sri Lankan president

By Krutika Pathi, Krishan Francis and Bharatha Mallawarachi - Associated Press

People watch propaganda materials displayed against prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe outside president Gotabaya Rajapaksa's office three days after it was stormed by anti government protesters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Thousands protest against Sri Lanka’s new acting president

By Krutika Pathi - Associated Press

Protesters dance shouting slogans against president Gotabaya Rajapaksa outside his office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. The president of Sri Lanka fled the country early Wednesday, slipping away in the middle of the night only hours before he was to step down amid a devastating economic crisis that has triggered severe shortages of food and fuel. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

What’s happened and what’s next in Sri Lanka

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People queue up to enter the official residence of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa three days after it was stormed by anti government protesters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Rajapaksa had vacated the building before the protesters came in. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lanka lawmakers to pick new president but no deal on prime minister

By Krishan Francis - Associated Press

Protesters look around and pose for photographs at the president's official residence a day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, July 10, 2022. Sri Lanka’s president and prime minister agreed to resign Saturday after the country’s most chaotic day in months of political turmoil, with protesters storming both officials’ homes and setting fire to one of the buildings in a rage over the nation's severe economic crisis. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lanka in political vacuum as talks go on amid crisis

By Krishan Francis - Associated Press

Protesters stand on a vandalised police water canon truck and shout slogans at the entrance to president's official residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, July 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Why Sri Lanka’s economy collapsed and what’s next

By Krishan Francis and Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Protesters react as a tear gas shell fired by police lands next to them in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, July 9, 2022. Sri Lankan protesters demanding that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign forced their way into his official residence on Saturday, a local television report said, as thousands of people took to the streets in the capital decrying the island nation's worst economic crisis in recent memory. (AP Photo/Amitha Thennakoon)

Sri Lanka Parliament speaker: President to resign Wednesday

By Krishan Francis - Associated Press

Women wait in a queue to buy kerosene in in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, June 11, 2022. Sri Lanka's economic crisis, the worst in its history, has completely recast the lives of the country's once galloping middle class. For many families that never had to think twice about fuel or food, the effects have been instant and painful, derailing years of progress toward lifestyles aspired to across South Asia. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lanka PM says economy ‘has collapsed,’ unable to buy oil

By Krishan Francis - Associated Press

A Sri Lankan navy soldier patrols in a street during a relaxation in a nationwide curfew that began Monday evening in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, May 12, 2022. Sri Lanka's president on Wednesday promised to appoint a new prime minister, empower the Parliament and abolish the all-powerful executive presidential system as reforms to stabilize the country engulfed in a political crisis and violence triggered by the worst economic crises in memory.(AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Wickremesinghe chosen Sri Lanka PM in effort to quell crisis

By Krishan Francis - Associated Press