- Sri Lanka’s parliamentarians have elected Ranil Wickremesinghe as the island nation’s eighth president.
- Legislators voted in a secret ballot on Wednesday on who would lead the country out of a deep political and economic crisis.
- Sri Lanka’s parliamentarians have elected Ranil Wickremesinghe as the island nation’s eighth president.
- Legislators voted in a secret ballot on Wednesday on who would lead the country out of a deep political and economic crisis.
- Wickremesinghe, 73, is set to be sworn in on Thursday and will serve the remainder of the term of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country and resigned by email last week.
- More protests are expected, with some demonstrators on Wednesday calling for Wickremesinghe to step down.
- The economic crisis has left Sri Lanka’s 22 million people struggling with shortages of essentials, including medicine, fuel and food.
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These were the updates on Wednesday, July 20: