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JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — A magistrate’s court in Jaffna has set April 28 as the date it will decide how former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa must provide testimony in the long-running case of two Tamil activists who vanished in 2011 amid allegations of enforced disappearance in the aftermath of Sri Lanka’s civil war. Lalith Kumar Weeraraj and Kugan Muruganandan, members of the leftist Frontline Socialist Party and organizers of protests demanding justice for victims of enforced disappearances, were l

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — A boat not designed for passenger transport, but carrying devotees to a Catholic church festival, capsized off the coast of northern Sri Lanka on Thursday morning, killing at least two people and injuring more than a dozen others and renewing concerns about maritime safety in the waters around the Jaffna peninsula. The vessel had departed from the fishing harbor at Kurunagar in Jaffna, carrying pilgrims to the annual feast of St. Anthony’s Church in Palaitivu, a small island

COLOMBO — A sitting judge of Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has taken an unusual step beyond the country’s borders, turning to the Indian judiciary in an effort to force Google to remove online articles he says have shadowed his reputation for nearly a decade. Justice A.H.M.D. Nawaz, who sits on Sri Lanka’s highest court and previously served as President of the Court of Appeal, has petitioned the High Court of Karnataka in Bengaluru, asking it to direct Google India to remove links to articles publ