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 ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Veteran politician 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 ...

Ranil Wickremesinghe has been elected Sri Lanka’s new president after a parliament vote count on Wednesday. Mr Wickremesinghe has been serving as the caretaker president ever since former ...

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 voted Wednesday to elect six-time Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as president after the country's previous leader fled the country amid protests over an major ...

Ranil Wickremesinghe elected crisis-hit Sri Lanka’s new president. Legislators tap the six-time PM as president, defying risk of more protests by people angry over a deepening economic crisis.

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday declared his candidacy to contest the presidential election in September as an independent candidate by depositing money to contest the ...

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 ...

The prime minister of Sri Lanka has agreed to step down, his office said on the same day anti-government protesters stormed the president’s residence.. Ranil Wickremesinghe told party leaders ...

With the resolution due for renewal in September 2024, Wickremesinghe, this time, is hoping to persuade the council to end its scrutiny of Sri Lanka. But the government’s actions expose the need ...

Archrivals Ranil Wickremesinghe, President of Sri Lanka, and Sajith Premadasa, Leader of the Opposition, are among the frontrunners for the crucial presidential election on Sept. 21.In separate ...