Sri Lanka Cabinet resigns amid protests

Mass protests in Sri Lanka over shortages and rolling blackouts forced the country’s Cabinet to resign over the weekend. The World’s Marco Werman spoke with Kalani Kumarasinghe, an editor and journalist covering the unrest from Colombo, about what exactly happened.

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