Sri Lanka’s newly elected president sworn into office

Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new president to take charge of a nation bitterly angry he was chosen to handle the country’s unprecedented economic crisis (Eranga Jayawardena/AP)

Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new president to take charge of a nation bitterly angry he was chosen to handle the country’s unprecedented economic crisis.

Mr Wickremesinghe took his oath before chief justice Jayantha Jayasuriya at a ceremony held in Parliament in the capital, Colombo.