{"id":46214,"date":"2022-07-09T18:43:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T09:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/09\/sri-lanka-protests-thousands-storm-presidents-residence-colombo"},"modified":"2022-07-10T02:11:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T17:11:45","slug":"sri-lanka-protests-thousands-storm-presidents-residence-in-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46214","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: president agrees to resign amid unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beleaguered Gotabaya Rajapaksa says he will step down on 13 July, following turmoil in Colombo <\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lankan president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has agreed to resign after a dramatic day which saw his house and offices stormed by protesters and the home of the prime minister set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>In a late-night message conveyed through the parliamentary speaker, Mahinda Yapa, the beleaguered president said he would step down from power on 13 July to \u201censure a peaceful transition of power\u201d. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/09\/sri-lanka-protests-thousands-storm-presidents-residence-colombo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beleaguered Gotabaya Rajapaksa says he will step down on 13 July, following turmoil in Colombo The Sri Lankan president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has agreed to resign after a dramatic day which saw his house and offices stormed by protesters and the home of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46238,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46214\/revisions\/46238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}