COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's first leftist president was sworn in to office on Monday (Sep 23) vowing to restore public faith in politics but said he had no magic solution to the hardships suffered following an unprecedented economic crisis. Self-avowed Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayaka of the People's Liberation Front (JVP) took his oath at the colonial-era Presidential Secretariat in Colombo after trouncing his nearest rivals in Saturday's vote. The previously fringe politician - whose party led two

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