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Sri Lankan court orders govt to hold local election

AFP report, March 4, 2023COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s top court on Friday ordered the government to proceed with a delayed local election, overruling President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who said the country was too broke to pay for it. The Supreme Court ordered Sri Lanka’s treasury to grant funds for the polls which were originally planned for March 9, but put off indefinitely last week when the government refused to finance them. Wickremesinghe had said the island nation,…