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Sunday, November 17, 2019

Rajapaksa wins Sri Lankan presidential election

Sri Lanka's former wartime defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been elected the new president. The 70-year-old retired lieutenant colonel had a 48.2% share of the vote with close to three million ballots counted. Rajapaksa conducted a nationalist campaign promising security and a vow to crush religious extremism following April 21 suicide bomb attacks.

from Times of India https://ift.tt/2NTOEh9

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