COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s ex-prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe who entered Parliament on Wednesday (23) as a National List MP, after his party was reduced to a single seat in the last elections said the government should go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or come up with an alternative plan.…
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