Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe received backing from 92 lawmakers in the parliament on July 30, his media office said, giving momentum to his reelection bid in a vote in September. A day after Wickremesinghe, who holds only one seat in parliament, failed to get official backing from Sri Lanka’s biggest political party, a significant...

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