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Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka's then-prime minister, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business in Hong Kong on November 4, 2016.

Sri Lankan protesters on Wednesday stormed the offices of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who's now the country's acting leader, after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country.

A prime minister six times over, Ranil Wickremesinghe’s leadership has been equated with Sri Lanka’s economic ambitions as well as its collapse. By Emily Schmall Ranil Wickremesinghe was named ...

At left, Sri Lanka’s newly appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe responds during an interview with the AP in Colombo, June 11, 2022. In the wide-ranging interview, Wickremesinghe indicated he ...

Yesterday, the Sri Lankan parliament installed Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country’s president by a vote of 134 out of the 223 cast by parliamentarians. The other candidates, Dallas Alahapperuma ...

Ranil Wickremesinghe, who had been in office only since May, said he would resign. By Emily Schmall One of the political casualties in Sri Lanka on Saturday was Ranil Wickremesinghe, a prime ...

Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new president Thursday to take charge of a nation bitterly angry he will remain in power amid an economic crisis.

Ranil Wickremesinghe, a six-time prime minister of Sri Lanka, was elected president by lawmakers amid the country’s political and economic turmoil. (Eranga Jayawardena / Associated Press) ...

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe—who was serving as the country’s interim president—was voted into power as the new president by the country’s lawmakers on Wednesday ...