What Sri Lankan President, Seeking Re-Election, Said About India: 5 Key Quotes Sri Lanka Elections 2024: Ranil Wickremesinghe, 75, who took over as President when Sri Lanka was going through its ...

Sri Lanka's acting president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, won a vote in parliament on Wednesday to be the next president until 2024, taking over from former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa who resigned ...

Ranil Wickremesinghe has spent 45 years of his life in Parliament and said he is happy to be Sri Lanka's next president By Lawrence Richard Fox News Published July 20, 2022 4:40am EDT ...

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.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the ...

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 ...

Sri Lanka's parliament elected longtime politician Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country's new president in a secret ballot on Wednesday. Here's what led to this moment.

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 ...

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, 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) ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan lawmakers chose six-time Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as president Wednesday to succeed the ousted leader who fled the country in a vote that risks ...