STAYING PUT Protesters look around at Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official residence a day after it was stormed in the capital Colombo on Sunday, July 10, 2022. AP PHOTO
STAYING PUT Protesters look around at Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official residence a day after it was stormed in the capital Colombo on Sunday, July 10, 2022. AP PHOTO

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is in a political vacuum for a second day on Monday, with opposition leaders yet to agree on who should replace its roundly rejected leaders, whose residences are occupied by protesters angry over the country's worst economic crisis since gaining independence in 1948.

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