Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation will be announced officially at 7:30 a.m. local time (0200 GMT) on Friday, the speaker’s office said late on Thursday. Rajapaksa, who fled the country on Wednesday, submitted his resignation to the parliamentary speaker late on Thursday. Maldives government has granted diplomatic clearance for a Sri Lanka Air Force aircraft carrying Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his spouse, on a transit visit, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Thursday. Exhausted and drained after nearly 100 days of protests, a small crowd …