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Aljazeera news says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has submitted a letter of resignation to the speaker of Sri Lanka’s parliament, a spokesperson for the speaker said, hours after he fled to Singapore.

Aljazeera LIVE says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had repeatedly assured the speaker of parliament that he would step down on Wednesday.

Aljazeera says Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled the country, hours before his promised resignation amid widespread protests over his handling of the country’s worst economic crisis since independence in 1948.

Sri Lanka President to resign amid protests and a storming of the official residence of the PM and president over the economic crisis.

France24 says SRI LANKA’S President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has informed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that he will resign, the prime minister’s office said on Monday.

TRT World says JAPAN’S governing party and its coalition partner have scored a major victory in a parliamentary election imbued with meaning after the assassination of former PM Shinzo Abe amid uncertainty about how his loss may affect party unity.

Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe died after being shot while giving a speech in the city of Nara. 

France24 says JAPAN’S FORMER PM Shinzo Abe was shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan and was airlifted to a hospital, with local media reporting that he was not breathing.

Aljazeera says Sri Lanka has less than a day’s worth of fuel left, the energy minister says, with public transport grinding to a halt as the country’s economic crisis deepens.

VOA says EIGHTEEN people were killed and 243 wounded during unrest in Uzbekistan’s autonomous province of Karakalpakstan last week, Uzbek authorities said on Monday — the worst bout of violence in the Central Asian nation in 17 years.