{O/C} {Closer to home}
A political ally of former Sri Lankan president Rajapaksa has been named the new prime minister.
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This, as an overnight raid rid the country of the main anti-government protest site occupied for months by furious protesters who promised to vacate the area by Friday.
The United States, the United Nations and others have denounced the brutal force used.
Sri Lankans have vented their pent-up outrage for the past few months as they fought to whip the apparently impotent government into shape over an economic crisis that's left the island nation's 22 million people fending for themselves.
Negotiations for an IMF bailout deal appear to be going nowhere fast given the country's economic predicament.
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