Sri Lanka:
Sri Lanka’s deposed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to arrive in Thailand on Thursday and seek temporary shelter in a second Southeast Asian country after fleeing his island nation amid mass protests last month, two sources said.
Rajapaksa flew to Singapore via the Maldives on July 14, following unprecedented unrest triggered by Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis in seven decades and days after thousands of protesters barged into the president’s official residence and office.
The retired military officer then resigned from the presidency, becoming the first Sri Lankan president to resign in the interim.
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