FILE - Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on June 11, 2022. On Friday, July 22, now Sri Lanka's new president, Wickremesinghe, appointed a classmate and ally of ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to be his prime minister and partner in rescuing the country from its predicament. The question is whether they can muster the political heft and enough support from a public fed up with shortages of food, fuel and medicine to get the job done. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)
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