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Sri Lanka to get new president next week amid political and economic meltdown

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Colombo, Sri Lanka Reuters Sri Lanka’s parliament will elect a new president on 20th July, its speaker said on Monday, after protesters stormed the residences of the current President and Prime Minister, who have both offered to quit amid an economic meltdown. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who had overseen a ruthless crushing of the Tamil Tigers […]