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FILE - Police fire tear gas as protesters stormed the compound of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe demanding he resign after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid an economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Since Sri Lanka defaulted in 2022, a half-million industrial jobs have vanished, inflation has pierced 50% and more than half the population in many parts of the country has fallen into poverty. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)