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Awe and Anger in Sri Lanka’s Ransacked Presidential Palace

Sri Lankans roamed through a ransacked presidential palace on Sunday as calm returned to the commercial capital, Colombo, a day after protesters stormed the building and forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to announce his resignation. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe also said he would step down to allow an all-party interim government…

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TUI cancels more flights and holidays after Foreign Office update

The UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) advises against all but essential travel

Nottingham Post

Sri Lanka protesters vow will not let up until president, PM quit

Leaders of Sri Lanka's protest movement said on Sunday they would occupy the residences of the president and prime minister until they finally quit office, the day after the two men agreed to resign leaving the country in political limbo.

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Sri Lanka crisis timeline: from galloping inflation to a president’s resignation

The country’s president offered his resignation via email after months of protests against lengthy blackouts, acute food and fuel shortages

The Guardian - AU

President says he will stand down after thousands of protesters storm his mansion

Soldiers were unable to hold back a crowd of chanting protesters demanding Rajapaksa's resignation and blaming him for the country's worst economic crisis in 70 years

Daily Mirror

Protesters Break Into Home of Sri Lankan PM, Set it On Fire

Protesters broke into the Sri Lankan prime minister's private residence and set it on fire, hours after he said he would resign when a new government is formed, in the biggest day of angry demonstrations on Saturday that also saw crowds storming the president's home and office. The office of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Sri Lanka's opposition parties hope to install a new government amid the turmoil

A lawmaker said all opposition parties combined could easily muster the 113 members needed to show a majority in Parliament, at which point they will request a new government.

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Sri Lanka: Prime minister and president resign after protesters spark chaos in capital

Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to step down following chaotic protests in the country.

Evening Standard

Protesters storm Sri Lanka president's home

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence on Saturday shortly before protesters, angered by an unprecedented economic crisis, overran the compound and stormed inside.

Bangkok Post

Sri Lanka leader flees amid protests over food, fuel shortages

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence in Colombo Saturday, according to defence sources, as protesters stormed his compound to demand his resignation. Earlier, the government declared bankruptcy amid the country's worst food and fuel crisis since independence in 1948.

Radio France Internationale

Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down

Rajapaksa to resign on July 13, the announcement came after a tumultuous day in which protesters stormed his residence.

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka prime minister summons emergency party leaders meeting after street unrest

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister on Saturday summoned an emergency meeting of political party leaders after protesters stormed the president's house in the commercial capital Colombo amid growing anger over the government's handling of an economic crisis.

Reuters

Sri Lanka PM's house set on fire, police say

Sri Lanka’s prime minister agreed to resign on Saturday after party leaders in Parliament demanded both he and the embattled president step down on the day protesters stormed the president's residence and office in a fury over a worsening economic crisis.

France 24

Sri Lanka president to step down, parliamentary speaker says, amid storm of protests

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa plans to step down, the country's parliamentary speaker said on Saturday, bowing to intense pressure after a violent day of protests in which demonstrators stormed the president's official residence and set fire to the prime minister's home in Colombo.

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Sri Lanka imposes curfew in capital as police fire tear gas at protesters

Police imposed a curfew in Sri Lanka’s capital and surrounding areas on Friday, a day before a planned protest demanding the resignations of the country’s president and prime minister because of the economic crisis that has caused severe shortages of essential goods and disrupted people’s livelihoods.

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Sri Lankan police impose curfew as anger escalates over worst economic crisis in decades

Police impose a curfew in Sri Lanka's capital and surrounding areas after firing tear gas and using a water cannon on student demonstrators.

The Independent UK

Sri Lankan police impose curfew ahead of planned protest

Police have imposed a curfew in Sri Lanka’s capital and surrounding areas a day before a planned protest demanding the country’s president and prime minister resign over an economic crisis that has caused severe shortages of essential supplies

Reuters

Sri Lanka police fire tear gas, water cannon as students protest economic meltdown

Sri Lankan police fired tear gas and water cannon on students trying to march on the President's House in Colombo on Friday ahead of a planned weekend rally, as public discontent escalates over the worst economic crisis in seven decades.

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Sri Lankans ditch cars for bicycles to ride out economic crisis

For the last two weeks, Sri Lankan doctor Thusitha Kahaduwa has left his car in the garage and done his patient rounds by bicycle, spending hours each day criss-crossing the commercial capital Colombo.

The Guardian - UK

‘The family took over’: how a feuding ruling dynasty drove Sri Lanka to ruin

The inside story of Rajapaksa family infighting that toppled a country into violence and bankruptcy

The Independent UK

Desperate Sri Lanka pleads with Moscow to pay for Russian fuel on credit

The country also wants the Kremlin to resume flights between Moscow and Colombo

Daily Record

Couple left fuming after airport baggage chaos leaves clothes shredded to pieces

Posting to Twitter, user karen_nowland said her husband's bag was in pieces after flying from Manchester to Colombo in Sri Lanka

Al Jazeera

I can turn around Sri Lanka’s economy: PM Ranil Wickremesinghe

Sri Lanka’s newly appointed prime minister says it will take one and a half years to stabilise the crisis-hit economy.

The Hindu

Colombo Security Conclave meet in Kochi

The Conclave started as a trilateral maritime cooperation mechanism among India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka in 2011.

Al Jazeera

With no fuel and no cash, Sri Lanka grinds to a halt

Less than a day’s worth of fuel remains, says the energy minister, as the cash-strapped nation extends school closures.

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