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Foreign ministry to Israelis: Stay away from capital of Sri Lanka
Arutz Sheva ^ | 9/7/22

Posted on 07/09/2022 12:08:48 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced that he will resign after protesters stormed his palace and set the prime minister's house on fire.

BBC reported that prime minister and the president were not in the buildings.

Thousands gathered at the capital for a giant protest during which the called on the president to resign following what they defined as "mismanagement of the economic crisis".

According to the report, the president will step down on 13 July and the prime minister as well has agreed to resign.

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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pm; resigns; riots; srilanka
It's been a pretty bad week for prime ministers, all in all.
1 posted on 07/09/2022 12:08:48 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

because they’re very hungry


2 posted on 07/09/2022 12:10:00 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Eleutheria5

JUST IN Footage of Sri Lanka’s President fleeing on military ship from Colombo harbor

https://rumble.com/v1bo2mh-footage-of-sri-lankas-president-fleeing-on-military-ship-from-colombo-harbo.html?mref=3z0st&mrefc=23


3 posted on 07/09/2022 12:10:17 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998

Any word where he’s bound?


4 posted on 07/09/2022 12:11:22 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (All Hail the MAGA King, beloved of Ultra MAGAs and Deplorables!)
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To: Eleutheria5

All I got was a blank page.


5 posted on 07/09/2022 12:11:45 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Noah was called a conspiracy theorist by CNN . . . and then it rained.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Someplace where they don’t have lamp posts.


6 posted on 07/09/2022 12:13:36 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: janetjanet998

They are actually running!
It has to be bad!


7 posted on 07/09/2022 12:16:11 PM PDT by AZJeep
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To: Eleutheria5

Looks like China gets another colony.


8 posted on 07/09/2022 12:19:31 PM PDT by webheart
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To: Eleutheria5

Protesters take a swim in presidential pool after storming palace

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/07/09/sri-lanka-protest-palace-break-in-nr-vpx.cnn


9 posted on 07/09/2022 12:32:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Psst, Canadians!

Are you watching?


10 posted on 07/09/2022 12:33:45 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: Stosh; null and void; bagster; Travis McGee; Roman_War_Criminal; metmom

Heh

(”mismanagement of the economic crisis”)

seems...... Globalist, these days...
.

Almost as if it’s in intentional.

But hey, tinfoil........


11 posted on 07/09/2022 12:36:32 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Eleutheria5

They don’t wish to eat ze bugs.


12 posted on 07/09/2022 1:05:31 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Bus No. 2525)
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To: webheart
Looks like China gets another colony.

Why would they want it? There's little industry, no raw materials or resources to speak of. If you want to corner the market on coconuts and organic tea, I guess the place has some value.

As a military base, though, it would command the Indian Ocean, as well as India itself, Indonesia, Australia...

13 posted on 07/09/2022 2:16:38 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: janetjanet998

Wonder what was in the suitcases?


14 posted on 07/09/2022 4:29:41 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
"Wonder what was in the suitcases?"


15 posted on 07/09/2022 7:20:07 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: sevlex

Shh! He’ll declare another state of emergency.


16 posted on 07/10/2022 3:44:18 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (All Hail the MAGA King, beloved of Ultra MAGAs and Deplorables!)
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