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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's first presidential elections since an unprecedented economic crisis spurred widespread unrest will be held in September, the election commission said Friday.The election will be the first test of the public mood since the height of the 2022 downturn, which caused months of food, fuel and medicine shortages across the island nation.President Ranil Wickremesinghe, 75, who took office after street protests forced his predecessor to flee the country, has strongly hinted he plans to run.He will face at least two rivals campaigning against austerity measures his government imposed to satisfy an International Monetary Fund bailout package.The five-week campaign announced by the

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