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Byline: Mujib Mashal and Dharisha Bastians COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Even before the coordinated bombings that killed 250 people last month, Sri Lanka's president and prime minister were in trouble [...]

Byline: Mujib Mashal, Dharisha Bastians and Jeffrey Gettleman COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Time after time, Sri Lankan authorities have botched the effort first to head off and then to investigate [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Gettleman and Dharisha Bastians NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka - Auranzeb Zabi was cooking rice at a friend's house on Wednesday when he heard angry shouting outside, looked out the [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Gettleman, Dharisha Bastians and Kai Schultz COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - He built his fortune on black pepper, white pepper, nutmeg, cloves and vanilla. His family lived in a [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Gettleman and Dharisha Bastians NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka - The little room, like much of Sri Lanka, could hold no more grief. All day Monday, through the steamy heat, [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Gettleman, Mujib Mashal and Dharisha Bastians COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The confidential security memo laid it all out: names, addresses, phone numbers, even the times in the middle [...]

Byline: Hannah Beech, Dharisha Bastians and Kai Schultz JAKARTA, Indonesia - The deadly attacks in Sri Lanka on Sunday highlighted how easily religious coexistence can be ripped apart in a [...]

Byline: MARIA ABI-HABIB and DHARISHA BASTIANS When Sri Lanka's president was elected in 2015, he was given a sweeping mandate from voters to investigate accusations of war crimes and graft [...]

Byline: DHARISHA BASTIANS and GEETA ANAND COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Seated on a platform outside a regional post office in Sri Lanka's former war zone, about 150 miles north of [...]

Byline: DHARISHA BASTIANS COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The oldest son of Sri Lanka's former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has been arrested on charges of money-laundering in the government's latest effort to [...]

Byline: DHARISHA BASTIANS and GEETA ANAND ARANAYAKE, Sri Lanka -- The roar was deafening, making D.P. Nimal Ratnasinghe think that a helicopter was trying to land near his tiny grocery [...]

Byline: GEETA ANAND and DHARISHA BASTIANS KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka -- On a small wooden table at the doorway to this bright-turquoise house in Kilinochchi, the town that Tamil militants claimed [...]

Byline: GEETA ANAND and DHARISHA BASTIANS COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Leaders of Sri Lanka, an island nation at the foot of India, have repeatedly promised a political solution to the [...]

Byline: DHARISHA BASTIANS and GEETA ANAND COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan authorities have arrested a son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa on money laundering charges, the government's latest attempt [...]

Byline: DHARISHA BASTIANS and GEETA ANAND COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A group of saffron-robed monks chanted as officials crushed more than 300 elephant tusks in a seaside ceremony on Tuesday, [...]

Byline: DHARISHA BASTIANS COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, who was defeated in January, now has a chance to make a major political comeback after [...]

Byline: GARDINER HARRIS and DHARISHA BASTIANS NEW DELHI -- A judge in Sri Lanka on Tuesday granted bail to a Tamil activist in a case widely seen as a crucial [...]

Byline: DHARISHA BASTIANS COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A week after taking office, Sri Lanka's new president reached out to ethnic Tamils in the country's north on Thursday by appointing a [...]

Byline: DHARISHA BASTIANS and GARDINER HARRIS COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Pope Francis arrived in this capital city on Tuesday and said the country must address the wounds from the civil [...]

Byline: ELLEN BARRY and DHARISHA BASTIANS NEW DELHI -- After a startling upset in Sri Lanka's presidential election, President Mahinda Rajapaksa conceded defeat on Friday morning, bringing an abrupt end [...]

Byline: DHARISHA BASTIANS COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A radical monk from Myanmar who has preached hatred toward Muslims and is the spiritual leader of a movement to boycott Muslim businesses [...]

Byline: GARDINER HARRIS and DHARISHA BASTIANS NEW DELHI -- Sri Lanka's governing party claimed victory on Sunday in a provincial election that was widely seen as a crucial test of [...]

Byline: DHARISHA BASTIANS and GARDINER HARRIS ALUTHGAMA, Sri Lanka -- In some of the worst religious violence in Sri Lanka in decades, three people have been killed and 78 injured [...]