Sri Lanka's president to resign after being chased from home

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COLOMBO, July 10 — Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced his resignation yesterday, hours after a crowd of angry protesters chased him from his residence, as months of frustration brought on by an unprecedented economic crisis boiled over.Hundreds of thousands of people massed in the capital Colombo to demand the government take responsibility for mismanaging the nation's finances, and for crippling food and fuel shortages.After storming the gates of the presidential palace, a throng of protesters walked through its rooms, with some among the boisterous crowd jumping into the compound's pool.Others were seen laughing and lounging in the stately bedrooms of the residence, with one pulling out what he claimed was a pair of Rajapaksa's underwear.At around the same time, the leader had boarded a naval craft at the Colombo port and was taken to the isla…