Anura Kumara Dissanayake's celebrates his vote. Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via Getty Images Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads both the National People’s Power alliance, or NPP, and the Janatha Vimukthi ...

(Bloomberg) -- Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s coalition won a historic parliamentary supermajority in the country’s election, underscoring the depth of the support for the leftist ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka's presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday, after voters rejected the old political guard that has ...

The election of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP—People’s Liberation Front) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake as president of the South Asian island country of Sri Lanka warrants careful examination. It ...

The party of Sri Lanka's newly elected Marxist-leaning president won a two-thirds majority in parliamentary elections Thursday, the country's election commission said today. President Anura Kumara ...