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1. Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns to Colombo, Sri Lanka, after seven weeks of exile.
   2022-09-03 10:06:49 (First version)
2. Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns to Colombo, Sri Lanka, after seven weeks of exile.
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