Sri Lanka: Leader’s Powers Cut

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/world/asia/sri-lanka-leaders-powers-cut.html

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Sri Lanka’s Parliament overwhelmingly passed measures on Tuesday reducing some of the presidency’s powers, in a move that President Maithripala Sirisena had promised in succeeding President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was criticized as autocratic.