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Sri Lanka reports its first two cases of mpox, but does not specify the clade the cases are from.
2024-08-22

Police in Sri Lanka announce the arrests of 14,766 people during a week-long military-backed crackdown, leading to the seizure of nearly 440 kg of narcotics.
2023-12-24

Six people are dead and ten others are missing after the ferry they were travelling on capsizes in Kinniya, Sri Lanka.
2021-11-23

Sri Lankan Member of Parliament and former industry minister Rishad Bathiudeen is arrested, along with his brother, under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for having connections with the perpetrators of the 2019 attack.
2021-04-24

Sri Lanka's National Medicines Regulatory Authority approves the use of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, becoming the second vaccine to be made available for the general public.
2021-03-4

A journalist for the British newspaper "Financial Times" is killed by a crocodile in Sri Lanka.
2017-09-15

Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lanka's jailed former army chief, loses an appeal to retain his parliamentary seat.
2011-01-25

306 former Tamil Tiger combatants are to be released from rehabilitation in Sri Lanka.
2010-10-23

Protesters try to enter the United Nations compound in Colombo, Sri Lanka, calling for the United Nations to abandon an inquiry into alleged human rights abuses in the final stages of the civil war between the government and Tamil rebels that ended last year. Staff are unable to leave until being assisted by Sri Lankan police.
2010-07-6

Protests continue in Sri Lanka after the arrest of opposition candidate Sarath Fonseka.
2010-02-11