Sri Lanka’s prime minister today pledged to revise a peace agreement with Tamil Tiger rebels and reject their demand for self rule if he is elected president.

The alliance of President Chandrika Kumaratunga emerged as the largest winner in Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections, but fell eight seats short of a majority and plans to seek a partner to forge a ruling coalition.

The political alliance led by President Chandrika Kumaratunga won the largest number of seats in Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections, officials said today, apparently forcing aside her longtime rival, the former prime minister.

The Sri Lankan military today began deploying soldiers to help police maintain security on the eve of parliamentary elections that could result in a hung Parliament with no clear winner.

The independent election commissioner took control of state-run television and radio today in an unprecedented move, following allegations of media bias toward the president’s party ahead of Friday’s parliamentary elections.

Irish MEP John Cushnahan has travelled to Sri Lanka to head a team of EU monitors overseeing the country’s upcoming general election.

Tamil Tiger rebels warned today that the Sri Lankan president’s decision to dissolve Parliament and call snap elections was “a grave setback” to the island’s frail peace process.

Tamil Tiger rebels said today they were committed to a Norwegian-brokered cease-fire, allaying fears that a power struggle between Sri Lanka’s president and prime minister would plunge the tropical island back into civil war.

Norwegian envoys who are trying to help broker Sri Lanka’s peace with its Tamil Tiger rebels headed for the island nation today while its president and prime minister remained locked in a power struggle that has thrown uncertainty on the peace process.

Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga is lifting the state of emergency she announced two days ago, a government spokesman said today, but she was preparing a new measure to boost the authority of the armed forces to respond to threats.

Sri Lanka’s Cabinet is trying to reconvene Parliament in defiance of a two-week suspension by the president in her power struggle with the prime minister over how to resolve Sri Lanka’s two-decade conflict with Tamil rebels, officials said.

SRI LANKA’S president has declared a state of emergency, deepening the country’s political crisis as her political rival was set to meet with US President George W Bush in Washington.

SRI LANKA’S president sacked three of the country’s most powerful cabinet ministers yesterday, suspended parliament and ordered troops out in the streets of Colombo, throwing the island into a constitutional crisis.

Sri Lanka’s government was plunged into crisis and its peace process jeopardised when the country’s president deployed troops around the capital and fired three key ministers who were trying to coax Tamil rebels back into talks to end a 20-year civil war.

The Sri Lankan president put her country on high alert today after the Tamil Tiger rebels suspended peace talks with the government.

Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate John Hume arrived in Sri Lanka today to share his experiences with Sri Lankan officials and Tamil Tiger rebels.

Sri Lankan and Tamil Tiger rebel negotiators will begin a third round of peace talks today amid fears that a brewing political crisis at home may affect the island’s best chance for peace in nearly two decades.

Rival politicians have brawled on the floor of the Sri Lankan Parliament amid bizarre claims that the president had carried a bomb into a cabinet meeting.

The Sri Lankan government and Tamil rebels have signed a permanent ceasefire as a crucial step toward end their 18 year civil war.

Officials in Sri Lanka have said a peace deal between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels could be signed within two days, despite a sea battle today which left three sailors dead.

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have welcomed a government move to lift a ban on them.

A month long cease-fire between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels has begun.

Sri Lanka’s government was today preparing for a one month ceasefire with Tamil Tigers rebels, clearing security checkpoints and roadblocks that have made the island’s capital resemble a garrison.

Sri Lanka’s Government has said it will co-operate with a Christmas ceasefire announced by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam earlier this week.

Sri Lanka's new government says it is likely to "respond positively" to the Tamil Tiger rebels' declaration of a one-month ceasefire.

Sri Lanka’s international airport reopened today and police arrested three Tamils as suspects in a daring rebel attack that left 20 people dead a day earlier.