Joy in Sri Lanka After President Resigns: The Political Week in Photos

After months of anti-government protests over his handling of the economy, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka and arrived in Singapore on Thursday. News of his resignation sparked celebrations in the streets of the capital, Colombo.

Russian forces continued to hit Ukrainian civilian targets far from the front lines, including a missile strike in the central city of Vinnytsia on Thursday that killed an estimated 21 people in what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called “an open act of terrorism.”