Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will oversee the election of an interim president following President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation, the country’s parliamentary speaker said
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa emailed his letter of resignation from Singapore, where he traveled to on Thursday after fleeing Sri Lanka
Crowds in Sri Lanka, angered by the country’s worst economic crisis in decades, stormed the prime minister’s office compound, demanding that he step down. The prime minister had just been appointed interim leader after the president fled the country.
In a brief statement to reporters, the parliamentary speaker, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, a Rajapaksa ally who has served as a conduit for communications from the president in recent days, said the resignation took effect Thursday, when Mr. Rajapaksa sent his
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