Troops and military vehicles have been deployed in the streets of Colombo amid widespread protests against the government over the economic failure of the country.
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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has urged people to stop violence and acts of revenge against fellow citizens and vowed to address the political and economic crisis facing the nation.
Sri Lankan authorities issued shoot-on-sight orders on Tuesday to quell unrest that has seen buildings and vehicles set ablaze a day after the island was rocked by deadly violence and rioting.
A day after Mahinda Rajapaksa quit as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
India on Wednesday categorically denied that it is sending or has sent troops to strife-torn Sri Lanka.
Conservative Yoon Suk Yeol took office as South Korea’s president on Tuesday, facing a tougher mix of foreign policy and domestic challenges than other recent South Korean.
About a dozen women protested in the Afghan capital on Tuesday against the Taliban’s new edict that females must fully cover their faces and bodies when in public.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said it is necessary to maintain a channel of dialogue with Russia on Ukraine, including at the request of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The death toll rose to eight on Tuesday in the unprecedented violence in Sri Lanka that erupted after supporters of former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa attacked peaceful anti-government protesters demanding his ouster over the country’s worst economic crisis that led to acute shortages of staple food, fuel and power.