COLOMBO -- Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed five-time Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe back to the post on Thursday evening in a ceremony that was not open to the media, the latest development in the country's political and economic turmoil.
The 73-year-old Wickremesinghe, whose United National Party holds just one seat out of 225 in the country's parliament, held closed-door discussions with Rajapaksa on Wednesday night during which he accepted the position, according to sources.
