COLOMBO: Thirty-nine candidates for Sri Lanka's presidential election submitted nominations on Thursday (Aug 15) as the Indian Ocean island nation prepares for a Sep 21 vote key to charting its path out of a gruelling financial crisis. The election will be Sri Lanka's first major poll since it ran out of foreign reserves , sending its economy into freefall and forcing it to default on its foreign debt in 2022. "The Election Commission believes we will get the support of political parties, media,

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