Sri Lanka PM faces confidence vote as key ally plans to defect

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe faces a no- confidence motion on Wednesday that could go down to the wire and lead … in the party to vote in favor of the no-confidence motion,” said Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena, a minister of Sirisena's Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).

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