Photo courtesy of DW When there is no clear yardstick to measure the seriousness of a situation, when the seriousness relates ...

Sri Lanka reached a preliminary agreement for a financial rescue package of about $2.9 billion with the International Monetary Fund, a milestone as it plots a path out of its worst economic crisis in ...

When Cyclone Ditwah made landfall on November 28 2025, Sri Lanka experienced one of its deadliest environmental disasters in ...

Maritime security firm Vanguard says a Portuguese-flagged gas tanker, the CGAS Saturn, was attacked several miles west of ...

When Denuwarage Kusumalatha (54) saw flood water reach her doorstep in the wee hours of Nov. 29, it was already too late. A ...

Indonesia and Sri Lanka are struggling to recover a week after cyclones tore through both countries. 'I do know better.' Actor BD Wong apologizes for racist comment ...

Cyclone Ditwah has left 479 persons dead and 350 missing in Sri Lanka, and 1.61million were hit by floods and landslides, the ...

During its slow crawl over Sri Lanka in November, Cyclone Ditwah was a rain machine that repeatedly swept over the same areas for days, eventually precipitating a national disaster with widespread ...

Landslides and flooding across Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand have killed more than 1,200 people in the past week, and 800 ...

An image showing an under-construction structure surrounded by overflowing water is going viral online with the claim that it ...

Severe flooding that ravaged communities across Sri Lanka was visible from space, as seen in satellite imagery released by a ...

Authorities in Sri Lanka are racing against time to rescue hundreds of missing people as death toll from rain and flooding caused by Cyclone Ditwah rose to 366 in one of the worst disasters the island ...