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The resignation of Sri Lanka's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been accepted, the crisis-hit country's parliamentary speaker announced Friday (July 15), after Rajapaksa fled the country earlier this week, prompting relief among protesters camped outside his former offices. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as acting president – his accession was automatic under Sri Lanka's constitution – but many of the demonstrators see him as complicit in the rule of the Rajapaksas and also want him to go.
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