AS A SOUVENIR: A tourist (L) poses for photographs with a Sri Lankan mahout and his elephant ahead of a religious procession in Colombo on Thursday. Some 30 elephants, most of them from the central part of Sri Lanka, together with thousands of traditional drummers, dancers and monks are gathering in the capital to participate in the city’s biggest two-day annual Buddhist procession. — AFP
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