Sri Lanka's ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns from exile

Sri Lanka's deposed president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, returned to Colombo on Friday, ending his exile in Thailand, an official at the country's capital's international airport told AFP on September 2.

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Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 73, was greeted by ministers with garlands of flowers, seven weeks after he had to flee the country, plagued by protests holding him responsible for the country's economic bankruptcy.