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Sri Lankan prime minister resigns

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa tweeted Monday that he has submitted his resignation, “effective immediately,” amid his country’s worst economic crisis in decades.

We hear the latest from NPR’s Lauren Frayer.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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