Veteran Politician Takes Control of Sri Lanka's Battered Economy

COLOMBO, SRI LANKA - Former Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as the country's president and has promised to form an all-party government capable of securing a multibillion-dollar International Monetary Fund bailout.

Wickremesinghe's victory followed the resignation of President Gotobaya Rajapaksa, who fled to Singapore after hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans marched across the c