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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s opposition on Sunday demanded a thorough investigation into a prison shootout that killed 27 inmates. Tissa Attanayake, a leader of United National Party said ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s main opposition party described the deaths of 27 inmates after a prison riot as a “cold-blooded massacre” and demanded a parliamentary investigation. Authorities ...

Sri Lanka's former president Ranil Wickremesinghe was shifted to a prison hospital after being granted bail over alleged misuse of government funds during his tenure. He was admitted to the Magazine ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) – Sri Lanka’s former army chief, who was imprisoned after losing an election to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was released from prison Monday to thousands of cheering supporters ...

"Corruption is the main reason for this economic crisis," Dissanayake, who took up the post in January, told AFP. The International Monetary Fund calls for the "prioritising" of anti-graft measures, ...

Another 42 people were wounded in the shootout on Friday between inmates and army and police commandos that broke out after the rioting prisoners briefly took control of at least part of the facility ...

A prison officer shows off a cat detained while entering the high-security Welikada Prison in Colombo with drugs and cell phone SIM cards. The cat later escaped. [Photo: AFP] A cat detained at Sri ...