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Sri Lanka's efforts to restructure its debt run into difficulty when an ad hoc group of private creditors object that the official creditors and Sri Lanka itself are being insufficiently transparent about their talks.
2023-12-1

Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa ends Samoa's state of emergency after two years.
2022-07-27

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declares a state of emergency in the capital as a trucker protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates enters its second week.
2022-02-6

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

The U.S. Department of Justice charges three Sri Lankan nationals with "providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization" in the Islamic State-claimed bombings.
2021-01-8

ISIL claims responsibility for the bombings in Sri Lanka that took place on Easter Sunday.
2019-04-23

A series of explosions at churches and hotels in four cities in Sri Lanka, including the nation's commercial capital and largest city Colombo, kills at least 359 people and wounds around 500 others. ISIL has since claimed responsibility for the attacks.
2019-04-21

More than 150 people are feared dead by two landslides triggered by more than three days of heavy rain in central Sri Lanka.
2016-05-18

Sri Lanka's former army chief Sarath Fonseka is freed from prison with a pardon from President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
2012-05-21

A Sri Lankan government commission set up to look into the last years of the Sri Lankan Civil War holds a meeting in Vavuniya on the north of the island.
2010-08-14