Former Sri Lankan president sworn in as prime minister

Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapaksa (L front) is sworn in as the country's new prime minister in front of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (R front) at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Nov. 21, 2019. Rajapaksa, ruling as the president from 2005 to 2015, took oaths as the prime minister a day after leader of the former ruling United National Party resigned from the post. (Photo by A.Hapuarachchi/Xinhua)