Sri Lankan troops stood with their weapons lowered in the grounds of the prime minister's office Wednesday (13), doing nothing to halt the huge mass of people wandering through the compound, despite orders to "restore order"
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Escaping Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa faced protests in the Maldives Wednesday (13) with dozens of compatriots urging Malé not to provide him safe heaven
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Norwegian diplomat Erik Solheim, who was the spearhead of an international peace process in Sri Lanka that failed, says the now ousted Rajapaksa brothers had no larger vision for their country and were into doing “politics for themselves”
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Sri Lanka plunged deeper into crisis on Wednesday (13) as the prime minister took over and protesters lost patience with a political leadership that was not bending to their demands
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Sri Lanka's Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who oversaw a ruthless crushing of Tamil Tiger guerrillas to end a long-running civil war and went on to become president, had been due to step down on Wednesday (13) to appease a population angry over…
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Thousands of anti-government protesters stormed into Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office Wednesday (13), hours after he was named as acting president
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Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency Wednesday (13) as thousands of people mobbed the prime minister's office after the country's president flew to the Maldives, following months of widespread protests against an economic crisis
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The Rajapaksa dynasty dominated Sri Lankan politics until April when street protests against fuel and food shortages began to slip out of control. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country early on Wednesday (13), leaving no one from…
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Sri Lanka's parliamentary speaker had yet to receive President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation letter though he has fled the country, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Wednesday (13)
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Sri Lanka's embattled president flew out of his country to the Maldives early Wednesday (13), in a probable prelude to his resignation after months of widespread protests against his island nation's worst-ever economic crisis
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