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The president of Sri Lanka has fled the country. Gotabaya Rajapaksa slipped away in the middle of the night only hours before he was to step down amid a devastating
Lawmakers agreed to elect a new president next week but struggled Tuesday to decide on the makeup of a new government to lift the bankrupt country out of economic and political collapse.