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Sri Lanka arrests ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa's son over Airbus dealLawmaker Namal Rajapaksa was arrested Friday in a corruption probe. The investigation concerns a 2013 Airbus aircraft purchase deal. Former...- Bangladesh protests are not the first time student uprisings have helped bring about radical changeLong-standing student protests in Bangladesh against an unfair job quota system turned violent, forcing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to res...
- Bangladesh protests are not the first time student uprisings have helped bring about radical changeStudents or other young people have frequently played pivotal roles in popular uprisings that have brought down governments or forced them ...
- Sri Lankan police arrest 1,500 people in connection with May 9 violenceOn May 9, violence erupted in Sri Lanka after supporters of former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa attacked peaceful anti-government prote...
- Lawyer moves court for arrest of ex-Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa for attack on protestersAccording to Daily Mirror, a personal complaint has been lodged before the Colombo Magistrate's Court by a lawyer requesting to direct the ...
- Sri Lanka hikes interest rates to tackle inflation amid economic crisisThe move comes as Sri Lanka's main Opposition party SJB on Friday announced that it will move a no-confidence motion against the government...
- Sri Lanka protesters defy curfew after social media shutdownPresident Gotabaya Rajapaksa imposed a state of emergency on Friday, the day after a crowd attempted to storm his home in the capital Colom...
- Sri Lanka's all-powerful Rajapaksas under fireLate Thursday hundreds of people tried to storm the home of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the current president and one of four politically active br...
- Grieving wife of Sri Lankan national lynched in Pakistan pleads for justiceA mob of over 800 men dragged Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, beat him severely to death and then they set his body on fir...
- Lanka's former top counter-terror official arrested over alleged plot to kill SirisenaSirisena's security was beefed up after the disclosure of the plot.
- Mahinda Rajapaksa's son granted bail; brother arrested by Sri Lanka policeNamal Rajapaksa was arrested last week and kept under remand custody till today, becoming the second son of the former president to be rema...
- Mahinda Rajapaksa's brother arrested in Sri LankaSri Lankan police today arrested former president Mahinda Rajapaksa's younger brother Basil in connection with an alleged land transaction ...
- Ex-chief of Sri Lanka's market regulator Nalaka Godahewa held for misappropriationNalaka Godahewa was arrested for criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of state funds, said police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera.
- Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena disbands military unit attached to his securityPolice will now be in control of the presidential security division, Police spokesman Assistant Superintendent Ruwan Gunasekera said today.
- Former Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa fears prosecution of entire family by new governmentFormer Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa expressed fears that the new government led by Maithripala Sirisena might end up prosecuting his ...
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