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Special Desk Sri Lanka president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his wife and bodyguards fled the country on an Air Force plane to Male, the capital of the Maldives. The president informed Sri Lanka’s Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena that he will resign in a few hours, something that becomes irrelevant after the …

Special Desk They call it ‘super-majority’ as the Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared victory in the country’s parliamentary election. Rajapaksa’s brother Mahinda Rajapaksa is expected to be prime minister, having held the role as caretaker since November. The brothers’ party, Sri Lanka People’s Front, has secured a two-thirds “super …