The Latest Breaking News from Namal Rajapaksa

Private healthcare company Aspen Medical was given more than $1 billion in government PPE contracts, despite having no experience in large-scale procurement, a Four Corners investigation reveals.

Sri Lanka's embattled president announced 17 new ministerial appointments on Monday, notably leaving out members of his own family, and expressed regret for his government's handling of a devastating economic crisis that has led to widespread protests.

As Sri Lanka grapples with an economic crisis caused by dwindling foreign currency reserves and escalating debt payments, the print media is beginning to pay the price.

Sri Lankan business leaders are calling for an end to the country’s political instability amid public demands for the president to resign over alleged economic mismanagement, warning that failure to do so would lead to economic catastrophe

Last Sunday -- with two notable exceptions -- Sri Lanka's cabinet resigned en masse in protest against the government's handling of the worst economic crisis to hit the island in decades, which has sparked widespread rioting, unrest, and arson attacks on police property.

Sri Lanka’s national medical association is warning that hospitals will be unable to provide emergency services in coming weeks because of critical shortages of drugs and medical equipment caused by the country’s economic crisis, leading to a catastrophic number of deaths if supplies aren’t replenished

Speaker tells parliament ‘there will be very acute food shortages’ and economic crisis is ‘just the beginning’

A group of Sri Lankan governing party lawmakers has called for the appointment of an interim government

Sri Lanka’s president asked opposition parties to form a unity government on Monday

Protesters rally across Sri Lanka despite curfew, demanding President Rajapaksa resign over worsening economic crisis.

Sri Lanka has imposed a countrywide curfew until Monday morning, in addition to a state of emergency declared by the president, in an attempt to prevent more unrest after protesters took to the streets blaming the government for the worsening economic crisis