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Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign after palace storm

Demonstrators protest inside the President's House after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled on July 9, 2022. [Reuters]

Sri Lankans roamed through a ransacked presidential palace on Sunday as calm returned to the commercial capital, Colombo.

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