Embattled Sri Lanka PM appeals for ‘patience’ from protesters ...Middle East

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa pleaded for “patience” Monday as thousands continued to take to the streets to protest his family’s rule, with public anger at a fever pitch over the country’s crippling economic crisis.Sri Lanka’s 22 million residents have seen weeks of power blackouts and severe shortages of food, fuel and even life-saving medicine in the country’s worst downturn since independence in 1948.Protesters have rallied daily since Saturday against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa — Mahinda’s younger brother — in Colombo and across the island nation, chanting “Gota go home” and calling for his government’s removal.In his first address since the crisis, Mahinda — t

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