Sri Lanka’s new leftist president appointed his cabinet September 24 ahead of an expected snap parliamentary election as he prepares to renegotiate the bankrupt island nation’s unpopular International Monetary Fund bailout programme. Self-avowed Marxist Dissanayake of the People’s Liberation Front (JVP) was sworn into office on September 23 after a landslide win in weekend presidential...

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