Sri Lanka's election commission declared a previously fringe Marxist politician the country's president-elect on Sunday after ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday claimed he had won Sri Lanka's presidential ...

Sri Lanka has its first Communist president in 56-year-old Anura Kumar Dissanayake - a historic verdict after a second round ...

Dissanayake pledged to change the island's "corrupt" political culture. The nation's battered economy took centre stage ...

Sri Lanka elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new president on Sunday, putting faith in the 55-year-old's ...

In a historic first, Sri Lanka's presidential election on Sunday went into a second round of counting after no candidate ...

Under normal circumstances, the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Sri Lanka's presidential election would have been ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been elected as Sri Lanka's new president, becoming the first Marxist leader in the country's ...

Sri Lanka's presidential election has progressed to a second round of counting for the first time, as no candidate reached ...

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayaka on Sunday won the presidential election in Sri Lanka defeating incumbent Ranil ...

Sri Lankan authorities begin a second round of vote counting to determine the next president. Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara ...