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Sri Lankan parliament elects Ranil Wickremesinghe as president
Sri Lankan MPs voted on Wednesday to elect six-time former Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, as president of the island. Wickremesinghe has…
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PM Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed interim president of Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan lawmakers met Saturday to begin choosing a new leader to serve the rest of the term abandoned by…
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Sri Lanka’s president resigns after fleeing to Singapore
Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned on Thursday after fleeing to Singapore, after weeks of protests in his home country. …
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Sri Lanka waits in confusion, anger for president to resign
Sri Lankans woke up to confusion on Thursday, still waiting for their embattled president to resign after he fled the…
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Sri Lankan president flees country
The president of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled the country early Wednesday morning, hours before he was due to step…
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Sri Lankan protestors bunk down in presidential palace
Sri Lankan protestors said Sunday they intend to occupy the president’s palace until he resigns, after storming the building over…
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Sri Lanka opposition aims for power after protests force leaders out
Opposition leaders in Sri Lanka are meeting on Sunday in a bid to form a new government after the nation’s…
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Protesters storm Sri Lanka president’s residence over economic chaos
Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo stormed the president’s official residence and his secretariat on Saturday, amid…
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Body parts illegally shipped to Sri Lanka are returned to the UK
Hundreds of tonnes of illegally imported waste made their way back to the UK from Sri Lanka on Monday. Between…
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