Sri Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns

Updated December 15 2018 - 7:06pm, first published 7:02pm
Mahinda Rajapaksa's resignation would force Sri Lanka's president to appoint a new prime minister.
Mahinda Rajapaksa's resignation would force Sri Lanka's president to appoint a new prime minister.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned on Saturday, his son and a party lawmaker told Reuters, seven weeks after President Maithripala Sirisena appointed him in controversial circumstances.

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