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Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lankas interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the countrys economic collapse forced him from office. Sri Lanka crisis: After Rajapaksa quits, Wickremesinghe sworn-in as acting prez REUTERS The speaker of Sri Lankas Parliament said Rajapaksa resigned as pre stanley cup sident effective Thursday and lawmakers will convene Saturday to choose a new leader. Their choice would serve out the remainder of Rajapaksa s term ending in 2024, said Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana. He expects the process to be done in seven days. That person could potentially appoint a new prime minister, who would then have to be approved by Parliament. With Rajapaksa done, pressure on Wickremesinghe was rising. Also watch: Sri Lankans VS Army: Tanks guard Parliament as anger over Gotabaya intensifes Opponents had viewed his appointment as prime minister in May as allevi stanley mug ating pressure on Rajapaksa to resign. He became the acting president when Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Rajapaksa arrived in Singapore on Thursday and his resignation became official on that date. The prime minister s office said Wickremesinghe was sworn in Friday as interim president before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya. Sri Lanka has run short of money to pay for imports of basic necessities such as food, fertilizer, medicine and fuel, to the despair of its 2 stanley cup 2 million people. Its rapid e Sjlt Singapore sees first death due to Covid-19 in nearly 2 months amid rise in cases
Tropical Storm Harvey spun across southeast Texas into Louisiana on Wednesday, sending more people fleeing for shelter after swamping Houston with record rains and flooding that killed at least 35 people and drove tens of thousands from their homes. Re stanley cup scuers help a man from the flooding of Hurricane Harvey on Augu stanley mug st 30, 2 stanley cup uk 017 in Port Arthur, Texas. AFP Photo The storm has forced 32,000 people into shelters since coming ashore on Friday as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in half a century. On Wednesday, it pummeled the coast from Port Arthur, Texas, to Lake Charles, Louisiana. Harvey weakened to a tropical depression on Wednesday night, the US National Hurricane Center said, but warned that catastrophic and life threatening flooding will continue in and around Houston, Beaumont/Port Arthur, eastward into southwest Louisiana for the rest of the week. The latest reported deaths included a married couple who drowned while driving through high water near Simonton, Texas, Major Chad Norvell of the Fort Bend County Sheriffs Office said on Twitter. The Houston Chronicle identified the victims as Donald and Rochelle Rogers of Katy, Texas. Houstons KHOU-TV said an infant girl was swept away after her parents got out of their pickup truck near New Waverly, Texas, and tried to carry her across rushing water. Police in Harris County, home to Houston, said 17 people remained missing. Busloads of people fleeing floodwaters around Port Arthur arrived in Lake Charles,
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lankas interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the countrys economic collapse forced him from office. Sri Lanka crisis: After Rajapaksa quits, Wickremesinghe sworn-in as acting prez REUTERS The speaker of Sri Lankas Parliament said Rajapaksa resigned as pre stanley cup sident effective Thursday and lawmakers will convene Saturday to choose a new leader. Their choice would serve out the remainder of Rajapaksa s term ending in 2024, said Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana. He expects the process to be done in seven days. That person could potentially appoint a new prime minister, who would then have to be approved by Parliament. With Rajapaksa done, pressure on Wickremesinghe was rising. Also watch: Sri Lankans VS Army: Tanks guard Parliament as anger over Gotabaya intensifes Opponents had viewed his appointment as prime minister in May as allevi stanley mug ating pressure on Rajapaksa to resign. He became the acting president when Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Rajapaksa arrived in Singapore on Thursday and his resignation became official on that date. The prime minister s office said Wickremesinghe was sworn in Friday as interim president before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya. Sri Lanka has run short of money to pay for imports of basic necessities such as food, fertilizer, medicine and fuel, to the despair of its 2 stanley cup 2 million people. Its rapid e Sjlt Singapore sees first death due to Covid-19 in nearly 2 months amid rise in cases
Tropical Storm Harvey spun across southeast Texas into Louisiana on Wednesday, sending more people fleeing for shelter after swamping Houston with record rains and flooding that killed at least 35 people and drove tens of thousands from their homes. Re stanley cup scuers help a man from the flooding of Hurricane Harvey on Augu stanley mug st 30, 2 stanley cup uk 017 in Port Arthur, Texas. AFP Photo The storm has forced 32,000 people into shelters since coming ashore on Friday as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in half a century. On Wednesday, it pummeled the coast from Port Arthur, Texas, to Lake Charles, Louisiana. Harvey weakened to a tropical depression on Wednesday night, the US National Hurricane Center said, but warned that catastrophic and life threatening flooding will continue in and around Houston, Beaumont/Port Arthur, eastward into southwest Louisiana for the rest of the week. The latest reported deaths included a married couple who drowned while driving through high water near Simonton, Texas, Major Chad Norvell of the Fort Bend County Sheriffs Office said on Twitter. The Houston Chronicle identified the victims as Donald and Rochelle Rogers of Katy, Texas. Houstons KHOU-TV said an infant girl was swept away after her parents got out of their pickup truck near New Waverly, Texas, and tried to carry her across rushing water. Police in Harris County, home to Houston, said 17 people remained missing. Busloads of people fleeing floodwaters around Port Arthur arrived in Lake Charles,
