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A protester sleeps at the official residence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, July 14, 2022. With the country sinking into political chaos, Rajapaksa and his wife fled to the Maldives on Wednesday aboard an air force jet. He made the prime minister acting president in his absence âÄ” a move that further roiled passions among a public that blames Rajapaksa for an economic crisis that has caused severe shortages of food and fuel. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)