Kerry visits Sri Lanka, pledges support for new government

By Lesley Wroughton and Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday the United States wants to renew ties with Sri Lanka and urged its new government to work with the United Nations to ensure an investigation into war crimes met international standards. Kerry arrived in the South Asian island nation earlier on Saturday, the first time in a decade that a U.S. secretary of state has visited Sri Lanka. He announced the start of an annual bilateral dialogue a