No confidence: Sri Lankan parliament votes out Mahinda Rajapakse´s government
(WorldNews France)

Sri Lanka’s parliament passed a motion of no-confidence in the controversially appointed government of Mahinda Rajapakse on Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Court overturned a presidential decree dissolving the legislature. Speaker Karu Jayasuriya ruled that a majority of the 225-member assembly supported the motion against Rajapakse who was made prime minister on October 26 in place of Ranil Wickremesinghe. The result does not automatically mean that Wickremesinghe, who had refused to......