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From the Maldives, the embattled Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the acting President.
Speaker Abeywardena said President Rajapaksa has telephoned him to confirm that he would be sending his resignation today as pledged.
The 73-year-old Sri Lankan President fled the country along with his wife and two security officers on a military jet on Wednesday.
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country on Wednesday, hours before he was due to step down after a people's uprising over a devastating economic crisis.
Former finance minister Rishi Sunak is the bookmakers' favourite, and among those he will be taking on are his successor Nadhim Zahawi and foreign minister Liz Truss.
A government source said he left for the city of Male, the capital of the Maldives.
The Immigration and Emigration Officers Association said its members declined to serve Basil Rajapaksa at the VIP departure lounge of the Colombo airport.
The $9 billion Webb observatory, the largest and most powerful space science telescope ever launched, was designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the known universe.
So far 11 candidates have thrown their hat in the ring to succeed Johnson as leader of the ruling Conservative Party and prime minister after he quit.
Rajapaksa, 73, is yet to resign formally and his whereabouts are also not yet known.
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