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Sri Lanka's New Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa
Newly elected Sri Lankan prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa (L) greets at the presidential secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, November 21, 2019. Sri Lanka's former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday took oath as the new prime minister of the island nation after incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe formally stepped down from his post. Rajapaksa, the elder brother of the newly-elected President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, will function as the prime minister of the caretaker cabinet until the general election in 2020 (Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto)
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| Category | Politics |
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