“Sri Lanka’s president fled the country and appointed the prime minister as acting leader, the speaker of parliament said, as protesters breached the prime minister’s office and the island was placed under a state of emergency,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
New York Times: “There was no clear sign of who was in charge for hours on Wednesday after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country, instead of resigning.”
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