Sri Lanka's Economy Collapsed and Leaders Resigned, Here's What's Next

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Hundreds of thousands of protestors in the streets of the capital city. The prime minister's house set on fire. Food shortages so dire that civil servants are getting extra time off to grow their own.

Those are just some of the scenes playing out in Sri Lanka, where the country's two top politicians -- Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa -- agreed to resign Saturday. An economic "collapse" has jeopardized the lives of 22 million.

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