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Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's National People's Power coalition wins a supermajority in the snap election for the 17th Parliament of Sri Lanka.
2024-11-15

Newly-elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake dissolves the Parliament and calls for snap elections on November 14.
2024-09-24

Sri Lankan voters head to the polls to elect a new president between 39 candidates. The main frontrunners are Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the socialist National People's Power and current Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa of the progressive United People's Power Party.
2024-09-21

Rajapaksa subsequently flees the country on a military aircraft to the Maldives, formally ending his rule of Sri Lanka. His brother, former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, also flees the country.
2022-07-12

Several opposition politicians are arrested in Colombo, Sri Lanka, after demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who said yesterday that the country is "bankrupt".
2022-07-6

Sri Lanka ends its state of emergency, four months after the Easter bombings.
2019-08-23

Off the northern coast of Somalia, Somali pirates hijack the "Aris 13", a United Arab Emirates-owned oil tanker, kidnapping eight Sri Lankan crew members. This is the first hijacking of a large commercial vessel in five years.
2017-03-14

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan calls for a snap election for November 1st after the previous election resulted in a hung parliament unable to form a coalition government.
2015-08-21

Voters in Sri Lanka go to the polls for local elections, with one person dying in clashes between supporters of rival parties in the Anuradhapura district.
2011-07-23

Thousands of Sri Lankans protest against a United Nations report calling for both sides involved in the civil war to be investigated for possible war crimes.
2011-05-2