{"id":46524,"date":"2022-07-18T12:48:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T03:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/18\/sri-lanka-acting-president-ranil-wickremesinghe-declares-state-of-emergency"},"modified":"2022-07-18T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T03:48:04","slug":"sri-lanka-acting-president-declares-state-of-emergency-ahead-of-mps-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46524","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: acting president declares state of emergency ahead of MPs\u2019 vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Declaration called \u2018expedient\u2019 as Ranil Wickremesinghe tries to curb unrest over ongoing political and economic crises<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s acting president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has declared a state of emergency as his administration seeks to quell social unrest and tackle an economic crisis gripping the island nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is expedient, so to do, in the interests of public security, the protection of public order and the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life of the community,\u201d a government notice released late on Sunday said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/18\/sri-lanka-acting-president-ranil-wickremesinghe-declares-state-of-emergency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declaration called \u2018expedient\u2019 as Ranil Wickremesinghe tries to curb unrest over ongoing political and economic crisesSri Lanka\u2019s acting president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has declared a state of emergency as his administration seeks to quell social unre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46525,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46524\/revisions\/46525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}