Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka expressed his belief that the steadfast friendship and enduring partnership ...

The intention was very clear: to eradicate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and other organisations that sought to create a separate Tamil state on the island. Originally envisaged as a temporary ...

A probe into the Batalanda Detention Centre in Sri Lanka from 1987-1990 has been sent to the attorney general. Allegations ...

End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do ...

Sri Lanka's jailed police chief was granted bail in April days before the island nation's traditional New Year. But a picture ...

Colombo (AFP) – Sri Lankan Catholics offered prayers for Pope Francis on Monday, the sixth anniversary of the Easter bombings that killed 279 people, recalling his "deep empathy" for the victims.

Prison officers are calling on the justice secretary to allow the use of electric stun guns in the UK’s most dangerous jails following an attack on guards at HMP Frankland last week. Mark ...

The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka has said that the Vatican has recognised 167 of its members killed in the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings as witnesses of faith, a designation given to ...

El Salvador's top Catholic leader on Sunday urged President Nayib Bukele not to turn the country into a Guantanamo-style U.S. prison, after Bukele made a deal with Washington to house deported ...

John Kennedy (R-La.) said on Sunday he does not think the law would allow President Trump to send United States citizens convicted of violent crimes to Salvadoran prisons, despite the president ...

In February 2025, Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror newspaper reported that Pillayan, while in Batticaloa prison, reached out to the main accused in the 2019 bombings, Zaharan, and aided him. This was based on ...

WASHINGTON — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported from the United States last month, told a visiting U.S. senator that he was moved from a notorious Salvadoran prison to a detention center ...