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A protester holds a portrait of former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa upside down after storming the office of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. 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targeting.<br></h1> </div>      <div class="letterbox"> <h1 class="zrlsu pa">The measures announced on Tuesday would “effectively freeze any assets they may hold in Canada and render them inadmissible to Canada,” the statement said.<br></h1> </div>    {
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