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Colombo (AFP) - Sri Lanka has declared a state of emergency after the crisis-hit nation's president fled to the Maldives, with protesters also demanding the prime minister quit.

AFP

Sri Lanka PM declares emergency as President Rajapaksa flees to Maldives

Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday declared an emergency and imposed a curfew in the western province of the country as protests intensified following President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's escape to the Maldives. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after president flees to Maldives

Colombo (AFP) - Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency on Wednesday after the president fled overseas to escape anti-government protests, as thousands of people took to the streets, again furious that he had not yet stood down.

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Sri Lanka PM declares state of emergency, curfew - spokesman

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has declared a state of emergency in his role as the acting president, after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives on Wednesday, leading to more protests amid an economic crisis.

Reuters

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees to Maldives

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country on Wednesday, hours before he was due to step down after widespread protests over his handling of a devastating economic crisis.

Evening Standard

President Flees Sri Lanka amid Crisis as Ire Turns toward PM

Sri Lanka's president fled the country early Wednesday, slipping away only hours before he promised to step down under pressure from protesters angry over economic chaos that has triggered severe shortages of food and fuel. But the crisis that has gripped the island nation for months was far from over:…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Gotabaya would ‘only transit’ the country, says Maldives; India denies role

Sri Lankan Air Force confirmed that Gotabaya Rajapaksa boarded an Air Force flight to the Maldives, days after enraged protesters overran his office and residence in a protest sparked by a devastating economic crisis.

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Sri Lanka: PM orders military to do ‘whatever it takes’ to maintain order

State of emergency declared as protesters reject premier Ranil Wickremesinghe acting as president and demand he and Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign

The Guardian - UK

India denies 'baseless and speculative' media reports about facilitating Sri Lankan President Gotabaya's visit to the Maldives

The 73-year-old Sri Lankan President reportedly fled the country along with his wife and two security officers on a military jet on Wednesday.

The Hindu

Sri Lanka latest updates: PM asks speaker to choose new leader

Ranil Wickremesinghe says new PM should be ‘acceptable to both the government and opposition’.

Al Jazeera

Sri Lankan president flees to Maldives

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country on Wednesday, a government official said, just days after protesters stormed the president's official residence as the island country grapples with its worst economic crisis since independence.

Bangkok Post

Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after president flees country

It follows months of protests over Sri Lanka's economic crisis.

Axios

Sri Lanka president flees country amid political, economic crisis

Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his wife flew to the Maldives on a military plane early on Wednesday morning.

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka president flees to Maldives ahead of expected resignation

Colombo (AFP) - Sri Lanka's embattled president flew out of his country to the Maldives early Wednesday, in a likely prelude to his resignation after months of widespread protests against his island nation's worst-ever economic crisis.

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France 24

Sri Lanka declares state of emergency hours after president flees for Maldives

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was appointed acting president after the crisis-hit country declared a nationwide state of emergency on Wednesday following President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's flight from the country.

AFP

Sri Lankan president flies out of country: officials

Colombo (AFP) - Sri Lanka's embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flew out of the country early Wednesday heading to the neighbouring Maldives, local officials said.

The Hindu

Colombo Security Conclave agrees to tackle common threats

The members of Colombo Security Conclave include India, Maldives, Mauritius, and Sri Lanka, while Bangladesh and Seychelles are the two observer nations

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.

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The Independent UK

Maldives plans ‘floating city’ designed to cope with rising sea levels

‘In the Maldives we cannot stop the waves, but we can rise with them,’ says former president Mohamed Nasheed

Chronicle Live

Ex-Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe gets married where Meghan Markle stayed before wedding

The pair the jetted off for their honeymoon in the Maldives

Reuters

Protesters attack Yoga Day event in Maldives

Police in the Maldives used tear gas and pepper spray to control a crowd of people who disrupted a yoga event organised by the Indian High Commission, or embassy, in the capital Male on Tuesday morning, an organiser said.

AFP

Islamists storm India-backed yoga event in Maldives

Malé (Maldives) (AFP) - Islamic extremists stormed an India-backed public yoga session in the Maldives on Tuesday, with police in the South Asian tourist paradise firing tear gas to clear the mob.

The Hindu

Indian teams outplay Maldives and Nepal

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Indian boys outplay Bangladesh

Girls beat second seed Maldives

Asharq Al-Awsat

Egypt's Suez Canal Extends Rebates for LNG, LPG Carriers Until End-2022

Egypt's Suez Canal has extended rebates on canal tolls for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers from July until the end of the year, the canal authority said in circulars published on its website. LPG tankers operating between the American Gulf and ports west of India,…

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