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Sri Lankan prime minister resigns after weeks of protests

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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned Monday following weeks of protests demanding that he and his brother, the president, step down over the country’s worst economic crisis in decades. Andrew Fidel Fernando, Sri Lanka based journalist, tells us more.

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